Academic Conference: “Thinking Past Tradition”

20 Sep 2024

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN In collaboration with Södertörn University Stockholm and the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, Paideia arranged the international workshop “Thinking Past Tradition” in September in Stockholm. The workshop was part of the new research project “Experimenting with Traditions: The Life and Afterlife of 20th Century Jewish Intellectual Culture in the Baltic Sea Region” that focuses on philosophical, theological and literary “experiments” with different traditions that Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) and his circle began during the time between the First and the Second World Wars. Rosenzweig described the meeting of Jewish Thought and Enlightenment as “a new way of thinking”. The project aims to show how new forms of thought arose, not least among female philosophers and writers, who did not always have access to academic institutions at the time.