Dr. Roi Benbassat

Dr. Roi Benbassat

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Jüdische Religionsphilosophie)

Campus Bockenheim

Juridicum 104a

Senckenberganlage 31

60325 Frankfurt am Main

Tel: +49 (0)69 798 33285

Email: benbassat@em.uni-frankfurt.de

Kurzbio

Dr. Roi Benbassat graduated in Philosophy and Music Composition at Tel Aviv University. He received his Master degree in Philosophy at University Sorbonne-Pantheon Paris 1 (Mémoire on ‚The Religiosity of Spinoza‘). He received his Ph.D in Philosophy at Tel-Aviv University in 2011, where he has also been teaching Socratic-Platonic Philosophy, Kant’s ethical and religious philosophy and Kierkegaard‘ thought. His dissertation entitled: The Relation between the Philosophical and the Religious: Reconsidering Kierkegaard’s Confrontation with Philosophy. Since 2013, during a Minerva Postdoctoral Fellowship (Max Planck Institute) at the institute of Comparative Ethics at Freie Universität Berlin, and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Maimonides Centre for Jewish Scepticism, his research expended into Jewish studies and focused on the work of the Israeli thinker Yeshayahu Leibowitz.

FORSCHUNGSSCHWERPUNKTE

Philosophy, Religion and Ethics
Religious Existentialism
Religion and Scepticism
Jewish-Christian interreligious dialogues
Religious positioning within Judaism In Israel

Publikationen

Aufsätze in Zeitschriften

“Jewish Faith and Scepticism—the Example of Yeshayahu Leibowitz”, Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advances Studies, De Gruyter 2017, pp. 161-181.
„Yeshayahu Leibowitz – Jewish Existentialism“, Religious Studies, vol. 51 [2] Cambridge University Press 2015, pp. 141-163.

Aufsätze in Sammelbänden

„אתית עצמית הונאה נגד כמאבק אמונה“, in With Fear and Trembling: Authentic Faith according to Kierkegaard [in Hebrew], ed. by T.A. Yaguri, Jacob Golomb, Pini Ifergan, Magnes Press, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (in print).
„Faith as a Struggle against Ethical Self-Deception“, in The Authenticity of Faith in Kierkegaard’s Philosophy, ed. by T. A. Yaguri and J. Stewart, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2013, pp. 18-26.
„Kierkegaard’s Relation to Kantian Ethics Reconsidered“, Kierkegaard Studies, Berlin, New York: Walter De Gruyter 2012, pp. 49-74.

Lebenslauf

Wissenschaftliche Ausbildung – berufliche Positionen

2017 – present LOEWE Schwerpunkt “Religious Positioning”, Goethe University

Frankfurt am Main
2015 – 2016 Fellowship Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies,

University of Hamburg
2013 – 2015 Minerva Stiftung Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Max Planck

Institute (Advisor: Prof. Dr. Michael Bongardt)

Freie Universität Berlin
2011 – 2012 The President Postdoctoral Fellowship (Advisor: Prof. Daniel

Statman), The University of Haifa
2010 – 2011 The Max and Bella Guggenheim Postdoctoral Fellowship devoted to

Jewish Ethics (Advisors: Prof. Christoph Schmidt & Prof. Elhanan

Yakira), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2011 Ph.D (Philosophy), Co-tuition Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-

   Sorbonne (advisor: Prof. Hélène Politis) and Tel-Aviv University

(advisor: Prof. Hagi Kenaan), coffered with the support of The

   President Scholarship for Excellent Doctoral Students at Tel-Aviv

   University



Teaching History
2012-2013 Stations in Western Philosophy, Ofakim Honors Program of the

University of Haifa
2010-2011 Kant: Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone,

Department of Philosophy, Tel-Aviv University
2008-2010 The Philosophy of Socrates: Religion, Ethics and Knowledge of

Ignorance, Department of Philosophy, Tel-Aviv University