Project Details
Description
A One-week seminar for 16 college and university
faculty on Levinas and democracy.One-week Seminar for College and University Teachers, to be held at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), July 20-24, 2020, for sixteen participants. Director: Richard A. Cohen; Co-Director: James McLachlan; Co-Organizer: Jolanta Saldukaityte. Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) is now accounted one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century for having grounded meaning, truth and politics in an ethics rooted in the obligations of moral responsibility: putting the other person first. The Seminar will present and discuss Levinas’s thought as a profound and relevant framing to grasp the interrelationships which bind freedom to democracy and democracy to ethics.
| Status | Finished |
|---|---|
| Effective start/end date | 10/1/19 → 12/31/22 |
Funding
- National Endowment for the Humanities: $67,139.00
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