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5StimmungIn Andrew E. Benjamin & Dimitris Vardoulakis (eds.), Sparks Will Fly: Benjamin and Heidegger, State University of New York Press. pp. 67-93. 2015.
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6Jean Améry and the time of resentmentPhilosophy and Social Criticism. forthcoming.The article provides a close reading of Jean Améry’s essay, ‘Resentments’ from the perspective of temporality. Although firmly grounded in a specific historical and political context (Améry, a Holocaust survivor, reflects on the aftermath of his experiences during the war), I argue that this essay offers valuable insights into Améry’s philosophy of temporality. After establishing the context and structure of Améry’s ‘Resentments’, the article delves into a discussion of the temporal aspects foun…Read more
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20Werner HamacherPhilosophy Today 61 (4): 1005-1012. 2017.This text pays tribute to Werner Hamacher’s work. It contemplates Hamacher’s thought about language, especially his criticism of views that measure language according to its propositional and referential functions. Instead, Hamacher foregrounds the importance of language’s interruptions, strikes and disorders, in which language operates independently of anything but itself, thus revealing its innermost core. The text examines Hamacher’s “The Second Inversion,” “Afformative, Strike,” and “Other P…Read more
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14Werner HamacherPhilosophy Today 61 (4): 1005-1012. 2017.This text pays tribute to Werner Hamacher’s work. It contemplates Hamacher’s thought about language, especially his criticism of views that measure language according to its propositional and referential functions. Instead, Hamacher foregrounds the importance of language’s interruptions, strikes and disorders, in which language operates independently of anything but itself, thus revealing its innermost core. The text examines Hamacher’s “The Second Inversion,” “Afformative, Strike,” and “Other P…Read more
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19Pain as Yardstick: Jean AméryJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy 24 (3): 3-16. 2016.One of the best known and most widely accepted premises regarding the experience of pain and suffering is its singular, private nature. Pain’s violence isolates us from everything else, embedding us completely within our own suffering so that there is nothing else but pain: no world or objects, no relationship with other people, no past or anticipation of the future. An utter withdrawal. But pain’s isolating force is dual: it affects not only those who suffer, but also those who are not in pain.…Read more
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10Lament in Jewish thought: philosophical, theological, and literary perspectives (edited book)De Gruyter Mouton. 2014.Lament, mourning, and the transmissibility of a tradition in the aftermath of destruction are prominent themes in Jewish thought. The corpus of lament literature, building upon and transforming the biblical Book of Lamentations, provides a unique lens for thinking about the relationships between destruction and renewal, mourning and remembrance, loss and redemption, expression and the inexpressible. This anthology features four texts by Gershom Scholem on lament, translated here for the first ti…Read more
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16Language Pangs: On Pain and the Origin of LanguageOxford University Press. 2019.We usually think about language and pain as opposites, the one being about expression and connection, the other destructive, "beyond words" so to speak, and isolating. Language Pangs challenges these familiar conceptions and offers a radical reconsideration of the relationship between pain and language in terms of an essential interconnectedness. Ilit Ferber's premise is that we cannot probe the experience of pain without taking account its inherent relation to language; and vice versa, that our…Read more
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31Walter Benjamin and the Acoustics of ChildhoodAngelaki 27 (5): 37-55. 2022.Many considerations of Walter Benjamin's oeuvre refer to the central role of the image and of the visual. Much has been written on terms such as the “optical uncon...
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3Response of the authorIdeas Y Valores 70 (175): 178-183. 2021.Resumen Ante el dilema de si la Lógica de Hegel debe entenderse como una ontología o como una continuación del proyecto kantiano de la lógica trascendental, el artículo sostiene que no es propiamente una ontología, ni un análisis de conceptos y categorías subjetivas. Su vocación metafísica se basa en el postulado según el cual la reflexión del pensamiento sobre sí mismo tiene consecuencias para la comprensión del ser de lo que no es pensamiento, de modo que resulta ser un proyecto novedoso de on…Read more
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28A Language of the Border: On Scholem’s Theory of LamentJournal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 21 (2): 161-186. 2013.
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9Philosophy and Melancholy: Benjamin's Early Reflections on Theater and LanguageStanford University Press. 2013.This book traces the concept of melancholy in Walter Benjamin's early writings. Rather than focusing on the overtly melancholic subject matter of Benjamin's work or the unhappy circumstances of his own fate, Ferber considers the concept's implications for his philosophy. Informed by Heidegger's discussion of moods and their importance for philosophical thought, she contends that a melancholic mood is the organizing principle or structure of Benjamin's early metaphysics and ontology. Her novel an…Read more
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8A wound without pain: Freud on aphasiaNaharaim - Zeitschrift Für Deutsch-Jüdische Literatur Und Kulturgeschichte 4 (1). 2011.
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30Moods and PhilosophyIn Hagi Kenaan & Ilit Ferber (eds.), Philosophy's moods: the affective grounds of thinking, Springer. pp. 3--10. 2011.
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1Introduction moods and philosophyIn Hagi Kenaan & Ilit Ferber (eds.), Philosophy's moods: the affective grounds of thinking, Springer. 2011.
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15Philosophy's moods: the affective grounds of thinking (edited book)Springer. 2011.Philosophy's Moods is a collection of original essays interrogating the inseparable bond between mood and philosophical thinking. What is the relationship between mood and thinking in philosophy? In what sense are we always already philosophizing from within a mood? What kinds of mood are central for shaping the space of philosophy? What is the philosophical imprint of Aristotle's wonder, Kant's melancholy, Kierkegaard's anxiety or Nietzsche's shamelessness? Philosophy's Moods invites its reader…Read more
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21Leibniz's Monad: A Study in Melancholy and HarmonyIn Hagi Kenaan & Ilit Ferber (eds.), Philosophy's moods: the affective grounds of thinking, Springer. pp. 53--68. 2011.