Kaminska, Monika
Senior Fellow: October 2019–February 2020
Research Project: Traces of Dogmatism and Scepticism in the Philosophies of Education, ca. 1780–1920
This research project aims to analyse the emerging modes of rearranging the relationship between knowledge and religion which were invented in the “long nineteenth century” in order to overcome the secularisation crisis in the field of education. This includes propositions by Mendelssohn and Wessely and their opponents, as well as Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav, Samson Raphael Hirsch, and addition: Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Abraham Joshua Heschel and Nechama Leibowitz. The focus is on identifying elements of sceptical philosophy in the diverse conceptions of educational philosophy which arose between 1780 and the 1920s. It is also targeted on the question of the direction and extent to which Jewish education had to be reconditioned in order to preserve Judaism and to simultaneously allow for a peaceful coexistence with Christians.
Monika Kaminska is a researcher in Jewish philosophy of education and an assistant lecturer at the Universität Hamburg.