Maurice Ruben Hayoun
Maurice-Ruben Hayoun is a philosopher, exegete and historian, a specialist in Jewish philosophy.
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Activities
Specialist philosophy medieval Jewish (Maimonides, Averroes, Ibn Badja, Avicenna) and the Judeo-modern German (of Moses Mendelssohn in Gershom Scholem), Maurice-Ruben Hayoun is University Professor (Strasbourg, Basel, Heidelberg) and particularly for courses at Department of Philosophy , University of Geneva.
Author of nearly fifty works constantly reprinted and translated including Jewish philosophy, he has published over ten volumes in the What do I know? (Paris, PUF), most of which were translated into European languages: German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Slovak, Greek)
His publications are regularly solicited by forums such as those of Le Monde , the Figaro , of The Tribune of Geneva , the Neue Zrcher Zeitung , of L'Arche.
A specialist in intellectual history he has published several books on cultural and spiritual roots of Europe, including Cordoba Lights in Berlin.
He regularly attends Morning Radio City and Geneva emissions hot Pascal Dcaillet Channel Leman Bleu.
His articles have recently been combined in a volume published in 2005 by Armand Colin (Hear O Israel, Hear France).
He was a candidate to succeed Jean-Marie Lustiger at the French Academy, receiving one vote.
Vice-President of the Fraternity of Abraham, he dealt with the issue of secularism and interfaith dialogue. He was received as such by Pope John Paul II at the Vatican in February 2000. He maintains a correspondence with Pope Benedict XVI on the study of German Jewish thinkers of the nineteenth century.
Awards
- Winner of foundations and foreign prices (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Berlin)
- Officer of the Legion of Honor
- Officer of the Federal German Order of Merit
- Big Badge of Honor of the Federal Republic of Austria
- Gegner prize for his work on Maimonides Award in 1995 on a proposal by Professor Roger ARNALDEZ, member of the Institute, the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences
Works
- Philosophy and theology of Moses of Narbonne (1300-1362), Tbingen, Mohr, 1989.
- Moshe Narboni, Tubingen, Mohr, 1986.
- The philosophical exegesis in medieval Judaism, Tubingen, Mohr, 1993
- Eliya Delmedigo (1460-1493). The examination of religion. Paris, Cerf, 150 pages
- The memories of Jacob Emden or anti-Sabbatai Zewi, Translated from Hebrew, Cerf, 1992
- Gershom Scholem. The names and symbols of God in Jewish mysticism. Paris, Cerf, 1983, 1989. (Collected texts, translated from German, with an introduction)
- Gershom Scholem. The Kabbalah, the basic themes, Paris, Cerf, 1985. (Translation from German with an introduction)
- Georg M. Langer, The Erotic of the Kabbalah, Solin / Actes Sud, 1990.
- Gershom Scholem. From the creation of the world to Warsaw, Paris, Cerf, 1990. (Text edited, translated from German, with an introduction)
- Solomon Maimon. Story of my life. Paris, Berg International, 1984.
- Samson Raphael Hirsch. The nineteen letters on Judaism Paris, Cerf, 1987.
- Franz Rosenzweig. The libretto of the understanding healthy and unhealthy Paris, Cerf, 1988.
- Theodor Lessing. Self-hatred: the refusal to be Jewish, Paris, Berg, 1991. 2oo2 reissue
- Grtz Heinrich (1817-1892). The construction of Jewish history, followed by Gnosticism and Judaism, Cerf, Paris, January 1992.
- Leo Baeck (1873-1956). The Essence of Judaism. PUF, 1993.
- Hermann Cohen (1843-1918). The ethics of Judaism. Cerf, 1994.
- The Enlightenment of Cordoba to the Enlightenment in Berlin: an intellectual history of Judaism, Pocket, Agora, 2007 / 8.
- Solomon Maimon. Reviewer's Guide for the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides, Le Cerf, 1998.
- The Zohar, the origins of Jewish mysticism, ed. Noesis, 1999, reissued by Pocket in 2005.
- Gershom Scholem: A German Jew in Jerusalem. PUF, Paris, 2002.
- Leo Baeck. The Gospels, a Jewish source, translated from German, with an introduction, Bayard, 2001
- Judaism (coll. 128 pages). (Armand Colin) 2003
- Jewish philosophy. Armand Colin, Collection U, 2004.
- Geschichte der jdischen Philosophie. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, 2004
- Maimonides, Paris, ed. Interlacing Collection eternal Wisdom. 2005.
- Hear, O Israel, Hear, France - Let us preserve our common heritage, Armand Colin, 2005.
- Leo Baeck. This nation. The Jewish existence. (Berlin, 1956, Gtersloh, GS 1996), French translation with introduction, afterword and bibliography. 2007.
- A Short History of Jewish philosophy. Paris, Ellipses, 2008.
- Renan. the Bible and Jews. Paris, Arles, 2008.
- Maimonides. Paris, Ellipses, 2009.
- Abraham. A patriarch in history. Paris, Ellipses, 2009.
In Collection Que sais-je?, PUF
- Maimonides, 1987, 2000.
- Science of Judaism, 1997
- Jewish liturgy, 1996.
- Medieval Jewish Philosophy, 1991
- Rabbinic Literature, 1990
- Modern Judaism, 1985, 1989, 2002 (was recently translated into modern Greek and distributed with the Athens daily, TO VIMA)
- Jewish exegesis, 2000
- Moses Mendelssohn, 1997
- Maimonides and Jewish thought, 1994
Works in collaboration
- Averroes and Averroism, Que sais-Je?, PUF, Paris, 1991
- Introduction to Talmud and Midrash, HL Strack, and G. Stemberger MR.Hayoun, Paris, Cerf, 1986.
- Gershom Scholem, from Berlin to Jerusalem, Paris, 1984.
- Synagogues, What do I know?, PUF, 1998
- Jewish historiography, Que Sais-Je?, PUF, 2002
External link
- Blog Blog Maurice-Ruben Hayoun
- Series of lectures by Maurice-Ruben Hayoun
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