Prof. Ronny Miron
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Teaching Experience:
1996 -- Bar-Ilan University. Since 2011 Associate Professor and Supervising Ph.D students in the interdisciplinary unit and in the department for philosophy.
Education:
1986-1987: Biblical Studies, Jerusalem College, Bayit-Vegan, Jerusalem
1987-1991: B.A in Social Work, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
1991-1994: M.A. in Jewish Philosophy (with distinction), The Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Thesis: “Nathan Rotenstreich Idea of History’s and its reflection in his thinking about Zionism’
1996-2001 : Ph. D in Philosophy, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan. Dissertation: “From Selfhood to Transcendence : The development of Metaphysical Consciousness in Karl Jaspers’ Philosophy (1910-1947)
1996-2002: Approved in Spring 2002. Thesis supervisor: Prof. Avi Sagi.
2002-2003: Post-Doctoral: Minerva Post-Doctoral Scholarships for research in Germany [2002, Goethe Universität Frankfurt a.M, Department for Philosophy, Prof. Axel Honneth; 2003 Ludwig-Maximilians Universität Department for Philosophy, Munich Prof. Wilhelm Vossenkuhl]
Languages: Hebrew, English, German, French.
Prizes and Scholarships
2013: Award of the university and the city of Bari, Italy for philosophical research
2007/8 Scholarships for distinctive research, the center for continental thought in Bar Ilan University
2006/7-2009/10 Alon grant
2002-2003 Minerva Post-Doctoral Scholarships for research in Germany [2002 in Frankfurt a.M, 2003 in Munich ]
1999-2001 Bar-Ilan’s president Scholarships for distinctive doctoral students
1996-1998 Doctoral Scholarships of Bar Ilan University
1992-1993 Lakritz Foundation’s Price for Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University
1992 Bahana’s Price for distinctive paper in Jewish Philosophy
1991-1994 Scholarships from the Institute for Jewish Studies, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
1990 Taustein Price for distinctive students
Conferences and Academic Lectures:
- 2002: “From Psychiatrics to Philosophy”, the 5th annual Conference of the new Israeli association of Philosophy (14.2.2002)
- 2004: Lecture at Ludwig Maxismilian University, Munich, 5th July 2004, in the Department of Philosophy and the Department for Religious Studies, “Religion without Metaphysics – a philosophical and religious challenge”
- 2006: “The guilt which we are – freedom and necessity in Jaspers’ idea of guilt”, lecture in: The international school of Holocoust Stdies, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, 26.1.06
- 2006: “Removing Brackets – Hedwig Conrad-Martuis and the realistic Phenomenology” the 9th annual Conference of the new Israeli association of Philosophy (21.2.2006)
- 2007: An Absent Present – A Phenomenological view Upon the Idea of the believer in Yeshayahu Leibowitz’s thinking, the 10th annual Conference of the new Israeli association of Philosophy (22.2.07)
- 2007: Hannah Arendt and the Human Condition, International conference, Bar Ilan University, Israel April 17-19: "The split ontology: A phenomenological view upon Arendt’s conception of human condition”
- 2011: International Congress IIH. Hermeneutics-Ethics-Education-Media
Organized by the International Institute for Hermeneutics, Warwas, September 5-8:
A Realistic Metaphysics in the Hermeneutics of Judaism: The Understanding of the Poet and the Novelist in Baruch Kurzweil’s Criticism of Modern Hebrew Literature
- 2012: "THE OUTSIDE'S INSIDE: The Phenomenology of the External World in Hedwig Conrad-Martius' Thought" held in: the 62nd International Congress of Phenomenology: The Forces of the Cosmos and the Ontopoetic Genesis of Life, to be held at Lucernaire Centre National d’Art et d’Essai, Paris, France, August 8-10, 2012
- 2012: "Collective Memory, Solidarity and Transcendence", held in: 'Solidarity, Memory and Identity' Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk, 20-21 September 2012
- 2013: "Faith, Radicalism and Personality: A Jewish Perspective on Edith Stein", held in: "Die Rezeption Edith Steins (1942-2012)", 18, March 2012, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
- 2013: "The Secret of Jewish Existence: A metaphysical analysis of Gershom Scholem's idea of Jewish History", International Conference on "To Be Or Not To Be A Jew - Problems and Aspects on Entering and Leaving Judaism", The University of Bucharest, The Faculty of Letters The Center of Jewish Studies, Bucharest, New Europe College, 23-24 May 2013.
- 2013: ' "The Gate Of Reality" : The idea of reality in Realontologie by Hedwig Conrad-Martius', Eleventh International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Budapest Hungary 19-21 June, 2013.
Research
Post-Kantian European philosophy, Phenomenology, Existentialism, German Idealism, Hermeneutics, History of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, Modern Jewish thought.
Publications
Books:
Miron, R. (2006). Karl Jaspers: From Selfhood to Being. Bar Ilan University Press (In Hebrew). Miron, R. (2012). Karl Jaspers: From Selfhood to Being. Rodopi.
Miron, R. (2013). The Angel of History – The Idea of the Jewish Past in the 20th Century. Magnes Press (In Hebrew).
Miron, R. (2014). The Angel of Jewish History: The Image of the Jewish Past in the Twentieth Century. Academic Studies Press.
Miron, R. (2014). The Desire for Metaphysics: Selected Papers on Karl Jaspers. Illinois: Common Ground Publishing.
Miron, R. (2021). Hedwig Conrad-Martius – The Phenomenological Gateway to Reality, Springer Nature.
Miron, R. (2022). Hedwig Conrad-Martius – The Phenomenological Gateway to Reality, Springer Nature. 2nd edition (forthcoming)
Edited Books:
Miron, R. (2018). Husserl and Other Phenomenologists. Routledge.
Miron, R. (with Antonio Calcagno) (2022). Hedwig Conrad-Martius and Edith Stein - Philosophical Encounters and Divides, Edited Volume with Antonio Calcagno. Springer.
Edited Special Issues
Miron, R. (2016). The European Legacy: Towards New Paradigms, 21 (5-6)
Miron, R. (with Simona Bertolini) (2021). Horizons - Studies in Phenomenology 10 (2).
Chapters in Books:
Miron, R. (2005). Phenomenology of the Believer’s Self - The Case of Yeshayahu Leibowitz’s Thinking. In Halbertal, M., Kurzweil, D., & Sagi, A (Eds.). On Faith, Studies on the Idea of Faith (pp. 125-189). Keter Books (Hebrew).
Miron, R. (2007). History and Reality: A Phenomenological Study in the Thinking of Nathan Rotenstreich. In Sagi, A (Eds.). The Book of Michael – Now and Then, In Honor of Michael Bahat (pp. 323-358). Keter Books.
Miron, R. (2007). Yeshayahu Leibowitz on the Possibility of Religious Subjectivity: Critique and Defense. In Anne Koch (Ed.). Watchtower Religionswissenschaft: Standortbestimmungen im wissenschaftlichen Feld (pp. 95-118). Diagonal-Verlag.
Miron, R. (2010). The Phenomenon of the Self in The Skin and the Gown. In Lipsker, A., & Sagi, A (Eds.). Twenty-Four Readings of Aharon Appelfeld (pp. 117-149). Bar Ilan University Press (In Hebrew).
Miron, R. (2013). Unity and Fragmentation of the Self in Leibowitz’s Idea of Faith and their Repercussions: A Critical Perspective. In Sagi, A., & Schwartz, D. (eds.). On Faith: Jewish Perspectives (pp. 545-583). Academic Studies Press.
Miron, R. (2014). ‘I saw the church growing out of my people’ - A Jewish Perspective on Edith Stein. In P. Manganaro, & F. Noradi (Eds.). Die Rezeption Edith Steins, Morcelliana Verlag, pp. 345-375 (Italian).
Miron, R. (2015). The Modern We – Collective Memory, Particularity and Metaphysics. In Wojciech Owczarski, & Maria Virginia Filomena Cremasco (Eds.). Solidarity, Memory and Identity (pp. 63-85). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Miron, R. (2017). A Philosophical Resonance: Hedwig Conrad-Martius versus Edith Stein. In Elisa Magri, & Dermot Moran (Eds.). Empathy, Sociality, and Personhood. Essays on Edith Stein’s Phenomenological Investigations, (pp. 193-216). Springer.
Miron, R., Chris Thornhill. (2018-current). Karl Jaspers (SEP). In Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford University Press.
Miron, R. (2018). Essence, Abyss and Self – Hedwig Conrad-Martius on the Non- Spatial Dimensions of Being. In Ruth Hagengruber, & Sebastian Luft (Eds.). Woman Phenomenologists on Social Ontology. Springer International Publishers, pp. 147-167.
Miron, R (2020). Essence (Wesenheit, Washeit) and Bearer (Träger) in Hedwig Conrad-Martius (1888 1966). In Mary Ellen Waithe & Ruth Hagengruber, Editors-In-Chief (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Concise Concepts by Women Philosophers (ECC). Springer International Publishers.
Miron, R (2020). Fulfillment and Capability (Können) in Hedwig Conrad-Martius (1888 1966). In Mary Ellen Waithe & Ruth Hagengruber, Editors-In-Chief (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Concise Concepts by Women Philosophers (ECC). Springer International Publishers.
Miron, R (2020). Movement, Reciprocity and Usability, a guest forward to: The Phenomenology of Jan Patočka, guest foreword in: Hila Naot, Raft on the Open Sea: Man and the World in Jan Patočka's (1907-1977) Phenomenological Philosophy (Hebrew), 15-17.
Miron, R (2021). Between Ontological Duality and Unified Individuality: Hedwig Conrad-Martius versus Edith Stein. In: Edith Stein’s Itinerary: Phenomenology, Christian Philosophy, and Carmelite Spirituality, eds. Harm Klueting and Edeltraud Klueting. Münster: Aschendorff, pp. 195-204.
Miron, R. (2021). The Metaphysical Absolutizing of the Ideal. Hedwig Conrad-Martius’ Criticism of Husserl’s Idealism". In Rodney Parker (ed.) The Idealism-Realism Debate in the Early Phenomenological Movement, Springer International Publishing, 193-216.
Miron, R. (2022). The Unsolvable Duality of the "I". In Ruth Hagengruber and Sarah Hutton (eds.). Teaching Woman Philosophers, Springer International Publishers (forthcoming).
Miron, R. (2022). Introduction (In: Hedwig Conrad-Martius and Edith Stein - Philosophical Encounters and Divides, Edited Volume with Antonio Calcagno (Springer, Forthcoming in 2022)
Miron, R. (2022). The Layered Phenomenological Metaphysics of Hedwig Conrad-Martius (Forthcoming, 2022)
Husserl's Duality - The Dual Gateway to Husserl’s Transcendental Phenomenology. In: Husserl and Awakened Reason, Iulian Apostolescu (ed.), Contributions to Phenomenology Series, Springer 2022 (forthcoming)
‘Unavoidable Guilt’ and ‘Foundering’: Milestones in Karl Jaspers’ Metaphysical Path, The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy (forthcoming, 2023)
Journal Articles:
Miron, R. (2003). History and Zionism in the Thought of Nathan Rotenstreich. Israel, Studies in Zionism and the State of Israel, History, Society and Culture, 4, 185-206 (Hebrew).
Miron, R. (2004). From Opposition to Reciprocity: Karl Jaspers on Science, Philosophy, and What Lies Between Them. International Philosophical Quarterly, 44 (2), 147-163.
Miron, R. (2004). From Psychiatrics to Philosophy: The Idea of the Self in Karl Jaspers’ Philosophy. Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly, 53, 123-150 (Hebrew).
Miron, R. (2004). The covenant between philosophy and Revelation: David Hartman’s Thought in the view of Karl Jaspers’ philosophy. DAAT, A Journal for Jewish Philosophy and Kabbala, 53, 161-192 (Hebrew).
Miron, R. (2005). Transcendence and Dissatisfaction in Jaspers’ Idea of the Self, Phaenomenologische Forschungen, 10, 221-241.
Miron, R. (2006). Towards reality: The development of the philosophical attitude to reality in the thought of karl jaspers. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 37 (2), 152-172.
Miron, R. (2006). Was Jaspers really a Kantian? Yearbook of the Austrian Karl Jaspers’ Society, 19, 73-106.
Miron, R. (2007). Past, Linkage and Interpretation – Y.H. Yerushalmi and A. Funkenstein on ‘Wissenschaft des Judentums’. Alpayim: Journal for Contemporary thought and Litrature, 31, 169-223 (Hebrew).
Miron, R. (2007). Between Freedom and Necessity: The Conception of Guilt in Jaspers’ Thought. Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly, 56, 183-211 (Hebrew).
Miron, R. (2009). The Self in the Realms Ontology: A Critical View of Hannah Arendt’s Conception of the Human Condition. International Journal of the Humanities, 6 (11), 41-52.
Miron, R. (2009). Literature, Reality and Transcendence - A Study in Baruch Kurzweil’s Hermeneutics. Reshit, 1, 231-259 (Hebrew).
Miron, R. (2010). The Guilt which we are: An Ontological Approach to Karl Jaspers’ Idea of Guilt. Analecta Husserliana: the yearbook of phenomenological research, 105, 229-251.
Miron, R. (2011). A Hermeneutical View of the Jewish Past: A Reinterpretation of Yerushalmi and Funkenstein’s understandings of Jewish Historicism. International Studies in Hermeneutics and Phenomenology, 2, 617-646.
Miron, R. (2013). Models of Presence and Loss of Transcendence in History. Philosophy Study, 3 (4), 331-351.
Miron, R. (2013). Phenomenology, Internality and Transcendence. Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly, 62, 171-182 (In Hebrew).
Miron, R. (2013). History, Historiography and the Problem of Historical Continuity, Hermeneutical Studies in Baruch Kurzweil’s Thinking. Jerusalem Studies in Hebrew Literature, 26, 227-277 (Hebrew).
Miron, R. (2013). A review article on Francesco Alfieri, Die Rezeption Edith Steins. Internationale Edith-Stein-Bibliographie 1942 – 2012. Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly, 62, 98-104.
Miron, R. (2014). The outside’s inside: The phenomenology of the external world in Hedwig Conrad-Martius’ thought. Analecta Husserliana: the yearbook of phenomenological research, 116, 327-358.
Miron, R. (2014). The Secret of Jewish Existence: A Metaphysical Analysis of Gershom Scholem’s Idea of Jewish Historical Continuity. Review of Rabbinic Judaism, 17 (2), 170-206.
Miron, R. (2014). From the Covered to the Primordial, The External World in Hedwig Conrad- Martius’ Phenomenology. Iyyun: The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly, 63, 407-429 (In Hebrew).
Miron, R. (2014). The Gate of Reality - Hedwig Conrad-Martius’ Idea of Reality in ‘Realontologie’. Phänomenologische Forschungen, 59-82.
Miron, R. (2014). The Realism of the Transcendence - A Critical Analysis of Hedwig Conrad- Martius’ Early Ontology. The International Journal of Literary Humanities, 11 (3), 37-48.
Miron, R. (2014). Faith, Familiarity and Conversion - A Jewish Perspective on Edith Stein. Studia Hebraica, 219-251.
Miron, R. (2015). A Realistic Metaphysics in the Hermeneutics of Judaism: The Understanding of the Poet and the Novelist in Baruch Kurzweil’s Criticism of Modern Hebrew Literature, International Studies in Hermeneutics and Phenomenology, 8, 133-159.
Miron, R. (2015). The Mystics of the Historical Truth: A Metaphysical Commentary on Gerschom Scholem’s Idea of Jewish History. Review of Rabbinic Judaism, 18 (1), 135-156.
Miron, R. (2015). The Vocabulary of Reality. Human Studies, 38 (3), 331-347.
Miron, R. (2014/2015). The Phenomenal Experience of the ‘I’: The Idea of the “I” in Hedwig Conrad-Martius’ Early Phenomenology. The Irish Philosophical Society Yearbook, 99-123.
Miron, R. (2016). Introduction. The European Legacy: Towards New Paradigms, 21 (5-6), 465-466.
Miron, R. (2016). Husserl and Other Phenomenologists. The European Legacy: Towards New Paradigms, 21 (5-6), 467-480.
Miron, R. (2016). Faith and Radicalism: Edith Stein vis-à-vis Yeshayahu Leibowitz. Review of Rabbinic Judaism, 19 (1), 118-146.
Miron, R. (2016). The Poet of Reality A Critical Commentary on Baruch Kurzweil Hermeneutics vis-à-vis Martin Heidegger’s Idea of a Work of Art. DAAT, A Journal for Jewish Philosophy and Kabbala, 81, 389-410 (In Hebrew).
Miron, R. (2016). In the midst of Being – A journey into the internality of Being in Hedwig Conrad-Marius Metaphysics. Discipline Filosofiche, 26 (1), 217-244.
Miron, R. (2016). Husserl and Other Phenomenologists. The European Legacy: toward new paradigms, 21 (5-6), 467-480.
Miron, R. (2017). The Ontological Exclusivity of the I, Phänomenologische Forschungen, 97-116.
Miron, R. (2018). The External World – ‘Whole’ and ‘Parts’: A Husserlian Hermeneutics of the Early Ontology of Hedwig Conrad-Martius. The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, XVI, 299-316.
Miron, R. (2019). The Duality of the "I". Phänomenologische Forschungen, 71-98.
Miron, R. (2021). Glaube und Individualität: Edith Stein und Jeschajahu Leibowitz, Edith Stein Jahrbuch (ESJ, vol. 27), 96-131.
Miron, R. and S. Bertolini (2021). Introduction: WOMEN PHENOMENOLOGISTS: HEDWIG CONRAD-MARTIUS, EDITH STEIN, AND GERDA WALTHER, Horizons - Studies in Phenomenology, 355-359.
Miron, R. (2022). Between Theology and Phenomenology - Edmund Husserl, Hedwig Conrad-Martius and Edith Stein, DAAT, A Journal for Jewish Philosophy and Kabbala, 91 (Forthcoming) (Hebrew)
The “Cipher Scripture” of Jewish Metaphysics: The Hidden Dialogue between Baruch Kurzweil and Karl Jaspers, Frankfurter Judaistische Beiträge (FJB), (forthcoming 2022)
Hebrew Literature as 'Cipher Scripture' – The Hidden Dialogue between Baruch Kurzweil and Karl Jaspers. In Criticism and Interpretation, Journal for Interdisciplinary in Literature and Culture (Hebrew, Forthcoming 2022)
‘Unavoidable Guilt’ and ‘Foundering’: Milestones in Karl Jaspers’ Metaphysical Path, The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, XXII (Forthcoming. 2023)
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