[MaFLA] "Hannah Arendt and the Jewish Question"

[Dániel Villányi]

A SEMINAR WITH PROF. ANNABEL HERZOG


Dates: February 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10


Time: 18:00-21:00


Károly körút 22. Entrance at Röser Udvar

Intercom: 60


Registration: info at ashkenazium.eu


This course examines Arendt's complex and evolving relationship with Jewish
identity, politics, and the broader "Jewish Question" through a reading of
selected essays from the volume The Jewish Writings. We will explore how
Arendt's personal experience as a stateless Jewish refugee informed her
political philosophy, particularly her critiques of assimilation, her
ambivalent stance toward Zionism, and her analysis of antisemitism as a
distinctly modern political phenomenon. The course traces Arendt's
intellectual journey from her early engagement with Jewish politics in the
1940s through her later reflections on Jewish culture and belonging,
examining how she navigated the tension between particularist Jewish
concerns and her commitment to universal political principles. Through
textual analysis and sustained discussion, we will investigate Arendt's
controversial arguments about Jewish political agency, her rejection of
both victim narratives and nationalist solutions, and her vision of how
Jewish experience might contribute to a broader understanding of political
life and human plurality. The seminar culminates in an examination of how
Arendt's Jewish writings illuminate her central concepts of worldliness,
political action, and the conditions necessary for human dignity in the
modern age.


*Bio: *Annabel Herzog is Professor of Political Theory at the School of
Political Science at the University of Haifa, Israel. Her research focuses
on 20th-century continental philosophy, exploring the connections between
ethics and politics and between philosophy and literature.  Her last book,
Levinas’s Politics: Justice, Mercy, Universality (Philadelphia: University
of Pennsylvania Press, 2020), was the recipient of the 2021 Jordan
Schnitzer Book Award in Philosophy and Jewish Thought.



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