{"id":51192,"date":"2023-11-09T10:22:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T09:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=51192"},"modified":"2023-11-10T16:26:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T15:26:45","slug":"dialogue-with-jewish-humanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/dialogue-with-jewish-humanism\/","title":{"rendered":"Dialogue with Jewish Humanism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Constanza Kaliks and Peter Selg, leaders of the General Anthroposophical Section, are exploring Jewish humanism by presenting portraits of significant figures.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cMany voices in the 20th century are concerned with humanism,\u201d says Constanza Kaliks, co-leader of the General Anthroposophical Section at the Goetheanum. With the severe conflicts and challenges facing civilization today, Kaliks and her colleague Peter Selg see it as an existential task to call attention to the contributions of Jewish humanism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his contribution to the book Anthroposophie, Judentum, und Antisemitismus<\/em> [Anthroposophy, Judaism, and Anti-Semitism], Peter Selg traces Rudolf Steiner\u2019s relationship to Judaism, Zionism, and anti-Semitism.<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> What emerges is a complex and nuanced perspective: great esteem for the cultural and scientific achievements of those connected with Jewish culture; a strong critique of national Zionism, which Rudolf Steiner considered outdated and dangerous, as he did all nation-states; and, in the 1880s, Steiner even used certain formulations that led to irritation among his Jewish friends. Peter Selg embeds these views in the context of the discourse of the time, showing how Rudolf Steiner continued to have an interest in the developments in Palestine, valued the work of Martin Buber, and was associated with Zionists such as Ernst M\u00fcller and Hugo Bergman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peter Selg and Constanza Kaliks highlight the contributions of Jewish philosophers of the twentieth century \u201cto deepen our understanding of the present\u201d and see in their ideas a kinship with anthroposophy. Kaliks says, \u201cJewish humanists offer perspectives that perceive the human being\u2019s spirituality. Our humanity is founded on our turning to the other. This opens a dialogue with ourselves, with others, and with the world, which provides an expanded horizon of what can be known. Here, we can also find a possibility for a dialogue between Rudolf Steiner\u2019s ideas for the development of universities and the philosophers of Jewish humanism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peter Selg and Constanza Kaliks consider it important for our time that we further this dialogue between anthroposophy and Jewish humanism, which has so far been largely overlooked. They have already devoted themselves to the writings and lives of Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Primo Levi, Hans Jonas, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, Gustav Landauer, and Maria Krehbiel-Darmst\u00e4dter. Programs on Emmanuel Levinas and Paul Celan are soon to follow. The series will continue in 2024\u201325 with Ernst M\u00fcller, Hugo Bergmann, Gershom Scholem, and Margarete Susman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Translation <\/strong>Joshua Kelberman<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Images<\/strong> clockwise from the left
Gustav Landauer in 1892, Photo: Oscar Suck\/Wikimedia Commons CC SY 3.0
Primo Levi in 1983, Photo: Monozigote\/Wikimedia Commons CC SY 4.0
Hannah Arendt in 1958. Photo: Barbara Niggl Radloff, M\u00fcnchner Stadtmuseum<\/a>.
Martin Buber in 1963, Photo: Bilsen, Joop van for Anefo\/Wikimedia Commons CC SY 3.0
Emmanuel Levinas. Photo: Bracha L. Ettinger, CC BY-SA 2.5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Constanza Kaliks and Peter Selg, leaders of the General Anthroposophical Section, are exploring Jewish humanism by presenting portraits of significant figures. \u201cMany voices in the 20th century are concerned with humanism,\u201d says Constanza Kaliks, co-leader of the General Anthroposophical Section at the Goetheanum. With the severe conflicts and challenges facing civilization today, Kaliks and her colleague Peter Selg see it as an existential task to call attention to the contributions of Jewish humanism. In his contribution to the book Anthroposophie, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9216,"featured_media":50568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8820,8793],"tags":[11385,8803,8800],"class_list":["post-51192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-philosophy","tag-2023-41-en","tag-news-en-2","tag-on-site"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}