Prof. Eli Friedlander

Eli Friedlander is Professor of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University. He writes on aesthetics, the history of philosophy, in particular Kant and German Idealism, as well as early twentieth century analytic and continental philosophy. He published books on Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, Rousseau’s Rêveries, as well as on Kant’s Critique of the Power of Judgment. His new book Walter Benjamin and the Idea of Natural History was just published with Stanford University Press. Friedlander also works as an opera stage designer in Israel, Italy, Germany and Japan. His work includes designs for Weill and Brecht’s Der Jasager, Satie’s Socrate as well as recently Ravel’s L’Heure Espagnole (IPO, 2023). In 2024, Eli Friedlander was awarded the Meitner Humboldt Research Award that will enable him to stay at the Center for Post-Kantian Philosophy and develop new projects with the Center’s associates.