"The Star" for Beginners

Martin Brasser (1961) is lecturer at University of Applied Sciences Lucerne and managing director at Philosophie+Management Ltd. He is the author of Lässt sich Gott denken? (2014) and the editor of Rosenzweig als Leser (2004/2013).

Petar Bojanić (1964, Belgrade) is Principal Research Fellow of the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade (IFDT), and Director of the Center for Advanced Studies – Southeast Europe, University of Rijeka (CAS SEE). The author of numerous studies on the XX century Jewish political tradition. With Sona Goldblum, Bojanić edited a special issue of Les Cahiers philosophiques de Strasbourg “Franz Rosenzweig: politique, histoire, religion” (29/2011). His book Violence and Messianism has been translated into six languages.

Prof. Ciglia is full professor of Moral Philosophy at the Università «Gabriele d’Annunzio» of Chieti-Pescara. He is a member, at times with an executive role, of numerous Societies, Istitutions, Scientific Commitees, and Redactional Boards of national and international reviews (among which: Internationale Rosenzweig Gesellschaft, Istituto di Studi Filosofici «Enrico Castelli», European Society for Moral Philosophy; Reviews: «Archivio di Filosofia / Archives of Philosophy, «Nuovo Giornale di Filosofia della Religione», Redazione Romana «Filosofia e teologia»), and author of 160 publications, of which seven are monographies, in different languages (Italian, French, English, German, Spanish and Portuguese). He is a specialist in figures and themes of philosophy of existence (L. Pareyson) and of 20th century Jewish thought (F. Rosenzweig; E. Levinas).