The Division for Development and Public Relations     GABRIEL  MOTZKIN,  AHAD HA'AM PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF PHILOSOPHY  Status : EMERITUS Birth place : JERUSALEM Office Phone: 02-588-3775 Fax: E-Mail: msgmot@mscc.huji.ac.il U.R.L: http://socrates.huji.ac.il/Prof_Gabriel_Motzkin.htm   Department Faculty   HISTORY FACULTY OF HUMANITIES Dept. Description PHILOSOPHY FACULTY OF HUMANITIES Dept. Description GERMAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE FACULTY OF HUMANITIES Dept. Description   Academic Degree   Institution Year Ph.D. UNIV. OF CALIF. BERKELEY 1982   Academic Position   Year EMERITUS 2007 ASSOC. PROFESSOR 1996 SENIOR LECTURER 1990 LECTURER 1985   Administrative Position   From To Director, Institute of Arts and Letters. 2000 2001 Dean, Faculty of Humanities. 2001 2004   External Academic Positions Fellow, Zentrum f?r Interdisziplinare Forschung, Bielefeld, Germany, 1986-87 Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 1988-89 Max-Planck Inst. for History, G?ttingen, 1989 Consultant, German Min. for Research & Tech., 1987-88 Director, Van-Leer Jerusalem Institute since 2007. Awards and Honors: Lucius N. Littauer Foundation Award, 1990   Research Interests The history of ideas. History of religion; Catholicism and historical thought. History of memory.   Selected Publications Publication Title   Year Iser's anthropological reception of the philosophical tradition. 2000 Moral responsibility and discontinuity of remembering (German 1999 The intuition of time between science and art history in the 1997 The uniqueness of the Holocaust. (German version: Deut. Z. 1996 Time and Transcendence: Secular History, the Catholic 1992 Emil Lask and the crisis of neo-Kantianism. The rediscovery of 1989 Heidegger's transcendent nothing. 1989 The Catholic response to secularization and the development of 1989 S?kularisierung, B?rgertum und Intellektuelle in Frankreich und 1988 The conflict between church and state in nineteenth century 1987   © All rights reserved to The Hebrew University of Jerusalem