Maimonides Lecture on Scepticism (David Myers)

2 May 2023

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We would like to invite you to a Maimonides Lecture on Scepticism on Tuesday, 2 May 2023, at 18:00. David N. Myers (University of California, Los Angeles) will talk about "Scepticism, Postmodernism, and Modern Jewish Historiography."

Scepticism, Postmodernism, and Modern Jewish Historiography

This lecture offers a recounting of modern intellectual and personal history in order to address the claim that postmodernism introduced a debilitating scepticism about the capacity of history to grasp the past. Drawing on the critique of Carlo Ginzburg, it will confront the argument that postmodernism blurs the boundary between fact and fiction and thereby renders the noble craft of history an incoherent jumble of relativism. It will recall a memorable debate in Germany that laid out the stakes of the debate over postmodernism’s effects and will conclude with reflections on where we stand today in our post-postmodern era.

David N. Myers is Distinguished Professor of History and holds the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Date
Tuesday, 2 May 2023, 18:00

Venue
MCAS
Please contact MCAS for further information and registration.

Poster
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Contact and registration
maimonides-centre"AT"uni-hamburg.de