Program for the Third Annual Meeting

Of the Society for Continental Philosophy in a Jewish Context

Saturday, November 8th, 2003

Terrace Room in Lower Lobby of Boston Park Plaza Hotel

8:00‑9:30 p.m.: "Presences" (Two Papers with Audience Discussion)

Claire Katz (Penn State), Moderator

Gregory Kaplan (Rice University), "Is 'Dialogue' Immediate or Mediated? Martin Buber on the 'Presence' of the 'Other'"

Martin Kavka (Florida State University), "The Presence of God in Levinas and R. Hayyim of Volozhin."

9:35‑10:50 p.m.: "Levinas and Thanksgiving: The Modim and Sotah 40A"

Michael Smith (Berry College), Audience Discussion Leader

(for the texts under consideration, please see: Readings)

For further Information contact: Claire Katz, Program Director and CPJC Vice-President, at cek10@psu.edu, Michael Smith, CPJC President, at msmith@berry.edu, or James Hatley, CPJC Secretary, at jdhatley@salisbury.edu

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