Micha Danziger

I am a Ph.D. candidate at the Hebrew University in the History Department. I  received the President of State Scholarship for Excellence and Scientific Innovation in 2022 and am a research fellow at the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History. My research focuses on the philosophical crisis that occurred in reaction to Nazism and the Shoah. Researching the philosophical writings, lectures and debates that were published and recorded during or immediately after WWII, thereby, exploring and explaining the intellectual “stimmung” of the postwar period. The objective of this research is to shed light on the specific event of Nazism and the Shoah, where philosophers were trying to engage historical events which imbedded in them a metaphysical, ethical and epistemological rupture. I am also expanding on the intellectual and conceptual history of crisis.