Intertwined Lives and Themes among Jewish Exiles

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Seyla Benhabib
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Isaiah Berlin ◽  
German Jews ◽  
Judith Shklar ◽  
Jewish Intellectuals

This introductory chapter outlines the entanglement of Jewish intellectuals and others as they confronted exile, migration, and, in some cases, statelessness. These intellectuals include Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Albert Hirschmann, Varian Fry, Judith Shklar, Carl J. Friedrich, and Isaiah Berlin. They faced these challenges because of their Jewish origins, regardless of whether they themselves identified as Jewish, whether they were believers, or whether they were practicing Jews or not. Meanwhile, the chapter considers that for German Jews, the experience of belonging and not belonging, of being rendered migrants and internal exiles in their own country, began in the mid-nineteenth century, with the granting of certain civil rights to Jews residing in German territories. Lastly, the chapter presents a brief layout of the succeeding chapters' content.

Exile, Statelessness, and Migration: Response to my critics

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-44
Author(s):  
Seyla Benhabib
Keyword(s):  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Isaiah Berlin ◽  
Albert Hirschman ◽  
European Culture ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
Liberal Societies ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Palestinian Population ◽  
State Of Israel ◽  
Jewish Intellectuals

My new book, Exile, Statelessness, and Migration. Playing Chess With History From Hannah Arendt to Isaiah Berlin, considers the intertwined lives and work of Jewish intellectuals as they make their escape from war-torn Europe into new countries. Although the group which I consider, including Hannah Arendt, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Judith Shklar, Albert Hirschman and Isaiah Berlin, have a unique profile as migrants because of their formidable education and intellectual capital, I argue that their lives are still exemplary for many of the dilemmas and risks faced by all migrants. In the reply to critics, I consider such issues as the intellectual relations between Benjamin, Adorno and Horkheimer; differences between Arendt’s and Adorno’s views of an interpretive social science; and why international law played such an important role in the imagination of Jewish intellectuals. A further question involves the generalizability of the experience of Jewish otherness in European culture. Liberal societies always designate some others as their constitutive exterior. How continuous is the experience of emigré Jewish intellectuals with the exclusion of ethnic and racial minorities in our societies? Finally, if the founding of the State of Israel has by no means resolved the problems of statelessness but re-created it for the Palestinian population, what kind of political stance should we assume vis-à-vis this reality today?

Discourses of Civilization: The Shifting Course of a Modern Jewish Motif

2007 ◽  
pp. 24-35
Author(s):  
David N. Myers
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
High Standard ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
German Jews ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Jewish Intellectuals ◽  
Second World

This chapter focuses on 'Jewish civilization', in which the term served the interests of Jewish intellectuals far better when counterpoised against the German Romantic notion of a distinct national culture. It probes the significance of 'civilization' at several key rhetorical moments during the last two hundred years. It also recounts the event when German Jews endeavoured to reach a high standard of civilization through concerted self-cultivation and social integration in the early nineteenth century. The chapter talks about European Jews who applied their own standards of 'civilization' to other 'oriental' Jews. It describes the years between the Great Depression and the outbreak of the Second World War, when Mordecai Kaplan equated Jewish peoplehood and civilization.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Jones
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Old English ◽  
English Studies ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Scholarly Contribution ◽  
Anglophone World ◽  
The Relationship

This introductory chapter contextualizes the philological study of language during the nineteenth century as a branch of the evolutionary sciences. It sketches in outline the two phases of poetic Anglo-Saxonism for which the rest of the book will subsequently argue in more detail. Moreover, the relationship between Anglo-Saxonism and nineteenth-century medievalism more generally is articulated, and historical analogies are drawn between nineteenth-century Anglo-Saxonism and more recent political events in the Anglophone world. Finally, the scholarly contribution of Fossil Poetry itself is contextualized within English Studies; it is argued that ‘reception’ is one of the primary objects of Anglo-Saxon or Old English studies, and not merely a secondary object of that field’s study.

Vor- und Nachgeschichte Bild und Zeit bei Walter Benjamin

2018 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-212
Author(s):  
Cornelia Zumbusch
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Dialectical Image ◽  
Hidden Agenda ◽  
History Of ◽  
Chronological Time

Abstract Benjamin’s approach to the history of the nineteenth century as a prehistory (Vorgeschichte) of modernity relies on his concept of the dialectical image. Starting from Benjamin’s interpretation of Proust’s narrative endeavor as the evocation of images that have not been seen before, this essay tries to situate Benjamin’s dialektisches Bild in new contexts. Examining Benjamin’s interest in Goethe’s Urphänomen as well as implicit references to Lessing’s concept of fruchtbarer Augenblick or Cassirer’s idea of symbolische Prägnanz, this essay stresses not so much the important but often considered aspects of discontinuity and destruction of chronological time, but tries to trace a hidden agenda: the affinity of Benjamin’s dialectical image to genetic processes.

scholarly journals Public space and accessibility: Notes for a Geographical approach

2006 ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Angelo Serpa
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Henri Lefebvre ◽  
Jurgen Habermas

No espaço público da cidade contemporânea, o "capital escolar" e os modos de consumo são os elementos determinantes das identidades sociais. Aqui, diferença e desigualdade articulam-se no processo de apropriação espacial, definindo uma acessibilidade que é, sobretudo, simbólica. Visto assim, acessibilidade e alteridade têm uma dimensão de classe evidente, que atua na territorialização (e, na maior parte dos casos, na privatização) dos espaços públicos urbanos. Mas, afinal, que qualidades norteiam a apropriação social do espaço público na cidade contemporânea? Como explicar a apropriação seletiva e diferenciada de espaços, que, em tese, seriam - ou deveriam ser - acessíveis a todos? O presente trabalho pretende discutir essas e outras questões, baseando-se em uma revisão bibliográfica comentada das contribuições filosóficas de Hannah Arendt, Jürgen Habermas, Walter Benjamin e Henri Lefebvre. Em seguida, a partir da análise de exemplos concretos de espaços públicos, em cidades como Salvador, São Paulo e Paris, objetiva-se uma aplicação empírica dos conceitos discutidos, buscando-se elucidar as dimensões socioculturais e políticas da apropriação social destes espaços urbanos

scholarly journals Pessimism and monstrosity: a comparative analysis between Frankenstein and The Hunger Games

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-57
Author(s):  
Andressa Carolina Dos Santos Benedito ◽  
Fernanda Martinez Tarran
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Mary Shelley ◽  
Hunger Games ◽  
The Hunger Games

A partir de uma análise comparativa entre a obra consagrada Frankenstein, de Mary Shelley, e a trilogia contemporânea Jogos Vorazes, de Suzanne Collins, este trabalho pretende assinalar a visão pessimista quanto ao progresso tecnológico e científico que ambas compartilham. Apoiamo-nos na teoria de Walter Benjamin e Hannah Arendt, pensadores que escreveram sobre a mesma visão pessimista. Ademais, nossa pesquisa investiga as faces da monstruosidade na trilogia Jogos Vorazes em contraste com a criatura gerada por Frankenstein, categorizada como monstro clássico. Por fim, assinalamos a provável inclinação das mensagens finais para um pessimismo quanto ao progresso científico e tecnológico. Nosso objetivo é o de mostrar como essas histórias, separadas por quase duzentos anos, convergem para o mesmo questionamento sobre o futuro.

scholarly journals A revolta do poema

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (26) ◽  
pp. 120
Author(s):  
Guilherme Gontijo Flores
Keyword(s):  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Paul Celan ◽  
Alejandra Pizarnik

Neste ensaio parto das discussões de Furio Jesi, Hannah Arendt e outros autores acerca das relações entre revolta e revolução, além do ensaio O caráter destrutivo de Walter Benjamin e de trechos de Paulo Ferraz, Alejandra Pizarnik, Paul Celan e Guimarães Rosa, para propor modos de entendermos a potência de revolta do poema para além de um engajamento político explícito.

scholarly journals A DEMOCRATIC CONSENSUS? ISAIAH BERLIN, HANNAH ARENDT, AND THE ANTI-TOTALITARIAN FAMILY QUARREL

Think ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (48) ◽  
pp. 25-37
Author(s):  
Kei Hiruta
Keyword(s):  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Isaiah Berlin ◽  
Post War ◽  
Political Turmoil

Amid the ongoing political turmoil, symbolized by the recent violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, books and articles abound today to encourage us to re-read anti-totalitarian classics ‘for our times’. But what do we find in this body of work originally written in response to Nazism and Stalinism? Do we find a democratic consensus forged by a shared anti-totalitarian commitment? I doubt it. Considering the cases of Isaiah Berlin and Hannah Arendt, this article highlights discord beneath what may today appear like a post-war democratic consensus. I argue that the anti-totalitarian literature of the last century encompassed multiple political philosophies, which sometimes differed irreconcilably from each other.

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