Felix Weltsch: Liberalism, Zionism, and the Ethics of National Humanism
A podcast exploring the political thought of Felix Weltsch, a Prague-based Jewish philosopher and close friend of Franz Kafka and Max Brod.
Based on a 2025 scholarly study by Milan Hanyš (Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University & Masaryk Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences), the podcast presents the key themes of Weltsch’s political philosophy—his original vision of a defensible democracy, his centrist liberalism, and his concept of national humanism, in which he sought to reconcile Jewish identity, Zionism, and universal humanist values.
The entire podcast was created by Google’s Notebook LM tool, and all voices in the recording are fully generated by artificial intelligence.
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📖 Source: Milan Hanyš, National Humanism, Zionist Liberalism, and Democracy in the Philosophy of Felix Weltsch, The Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, 2025.
https://doi.org/10.1093/leobaeck/ybaf002