About
Benjamin Fisher is a PhD candidate in the study of religion with a designated emphasis in critical theory at the University of California, Davis. His main research areas are modern Jewish thought, Jewish-Christian relations, and European intellectual history. His dissertation, The Critique of Myth in German-Jewish Thought, chronicles the rejection of “myth” among nineteenth and twentieth century German-Jewish intellectuals such as Heymann Steinthal, Hermann Cohen, Sigmund Freud, Erich Auerbach, Theodor Adorno, and Ernst Cassirer. This is set within the context of German Romanticism, Liberal Protestantism, philology, comparative religion, and esotericism as well as the history of Jewish-Christian relations and prior iterations of Jewish rationalism. He holds a MA in religious studies with a concentration in philosophy of religion from the University of Denver and a BA in theology from Colorado Christian University. Prior to UC Davis he worked as a research and teaching assistant in philosophy at the University of Denver. He has also published pieces in Critical Research on Religion and Studies in Religion as well as given papers at annual meetings of the American Academy of Religion. His research has been supported by the DAAD German Academic Exchange Service and the Leo Baeck Institute for the Study of German-Jewish History and Culture.
