Summer Workshop 2012, Jerusalem

Martin Herrnstadt und Laurens Schlicht
Politics of Time. The Question of Time and the Projects of the Société des observateurs de l'homme
What could it mean to “save” the Enlightenment? Which is the role of rhetorics of a polarized field (enemies and friends of the Enlightenment) for the politics of the production of knowledge within the humanities in the post cold-war western academic world? These are the two questions which we want to discuss by means of two case studies.