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    Stimmung
    In Andrew Benjamin & Dimitris Vardoulakis (eds.), Sparks Will Fly: Benjamin and Heidegger, State University of New York Press. pp. 67-93. 2015.
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    Jean Améry and the time of resentment
    Philosophy 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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    Werner Hamacher
    Philosophy 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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    Werner Hamacher
    Philosophy 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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    Pain as Yardstick: Jean Améry
    Journal 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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    Lament in Jewish thought: philosophical, theological, and literary perspectives (edited book)
    with Paula Schwebel and Gershom Scholem
    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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    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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    Walter Benjamin and the Acoustics of Childhood
    Angelaki 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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    A Wound without Pain: Freud on Aphasia
    Naharaim 4 (1): 133-151. 2010.
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    A wound without pain: Freud on aphasia
    Naharaim - Zeitschrift Für Deutsch-Jüdische Literatur Und Kulturgeschichte 4 (1). 2011.