Moshe Halbertal: On the Fragility of the Human. Améry on Counter-Enlightenment
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2024
- Friday, July 1 2022 at Einstein Forum, Potsdam
The presentation will focus on Améry’s critique on “post-humanism” as it is articulated by Michel Foucault and others.
Moshe Halbertal currently is professor of Jewish thought and philosophy at Hebrew University. He received his PhD from Hebrew University in 1989, and from 1988 to 1992 he was a fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. Halbertal served as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, University of Pennsylvania Law School, and Yale Law School. He is the author of many books: Idolatry (with Avishai Margalit, 1992), People of the Book. Canon, Meaning, and Authority (1997), Concealment and Revelation. Esotericism in Jewish Tradition and Its Philosophical Implications (2007), On Sacrifice (2012), Maimonides. Life and Thought (2013), The Beginning of Politics. Power in the Biblical Book of Samuel (with Stephen Holmes, 2017), and several books published in Hebrew: Interpretative Revolutions in the Making (1997), By Way of Truth. Nahmanides and the Creation of Tradition (2000). His latest books are Nahmanides. Law and Mysticism (with Daniel Tabak, 2020), and The Birth of Doubt. Confronting Uncertainty in Early Rabbinic Literature (2020). Halbertal was the recipient of the Michael Bruno Memorial Award of the Rothschild Foundation and the Goldstein-Goren Book Award for the best book in Jewish thought in the years 1997 to 2000. In 2010, Halbertal was named a member of Israel’s Academy for the Sciences and the Humanities.
THANK YOU for exposing the purposeless of some of Foucaut's premises. FABULOUS topic and analysis about the lowering of one's guards in the home. Unique insight as always. One comment: A wiseman said the definition of "THE PRICE OF FREEDOM" is: "Constant alertness, constant willingness to fight back. There is no other definition." Hence home security systems, neighborhood watches, nightly beats of local police, guard dogs outside, loaded guns inside at the ready, domestic violence against women, child molestation, weed smoking, vaping, alcoholism, severe disobedience of children against parents, home invasions, gated communities.
For far too many USA children, "home" is not a positive concept. Here in the USA the home is under assault. Even tv stations line up as ultra right or ultra left, and kids watch politicians verbally slaughter each other and watch the coup d'etat of the USA on television plus years of hearings afterwards. One must maintain high aleart for the home 24-7 even in small town rural California where cartels, gangs, rapers, drug addicts, killers approach your yard. Last week the Right once again dropped off a bus of illegals at the home of VP Kamala Harris, and did so with impunity.
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