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Colloquium Series: Michael Morgan - "Kabbalah and Philosophy" - 10/18/24

Abstract The Kabbalistic tradition in Judaism has its origins in esoteric developments in antiquity. Its theoretical dimension crystallizes in commentaries and reaches important developments in the 13th century in Southern France and Spain. Over the next several centuries this cosmological thinking undergoes important changes, drawing on traditional Jewish sources and themes and also Western philosophy, especially the Platonist tradition. In the 16th to 19th centuries, Kabbalah reaches new levels of complexity and sophistication, interacting with Renaissance Platonism and Cambridge Platonism and influencing figures from Pico della Mirandola to Leibniz, Henry More, Ann Conway, Schelling, Hegel, and possibly Spinoza. With Spinoza, we find a tantalizing case that has generated a good deal of debate and justifiably so. In my remarks I will first say a word about how Spinoza’s philosophy came to be associated with Kabbalah. As background, I will turn briefly to an encounter that took place a century later, Solomon Maimon’s personal and philosophical reaction to Kabbalah and its cosmology. (Maimon was a young associate and critic of Kant.) From Maimon, I turn back to an important earlier Kabbalistic/philosophical work, the Gate of Heaven of Abraham Cohen de Herrera, which was written in Amsterdam in the 1630s and was very likely known to Spinoza. Finally, I consider how a familiarity with Herrera’s work would suggest how Spinoza might have reacted to the Kabbalistic cosmology (or metaphysics, as it were) and why it would be a different reaction from the one we found in Maimon. Biography of Dr. Morgan Michael L. Morgan is the Chancellor’s Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies (emeritus) at Indiana University and the Senator Jerahmiel S. and Carole S. Grafstein Chair in Jewish Philosophy and Jewish Studies (emeritus) at the University of Toronto. He has taught at Northwestern, Yale, Stanford, Toronto, and Princeton. He is the author and editor of twenty-two books, most recently The Oxford Handbook of Emmanuel Levinas (2019), Levinas’s Ethical Politics(Indiana, 2016), and Michael L. Morgan: History and Moral Normativity (Brill, 2018).