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HIST 405-01, Humanities Research Seminar: Intellectuals and Politics, Spring 2012
Judaken, Jonathan
Judaken, Jonathan
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Abstract
In this course, students will learn the process of moving from
primary sources to interpretations through readings around a set of thematically
interrelated case studies. In each case, students will deliberate the response of
intellectuals to a situation involving a political struggle concerning Judaism, Jewish
identity, Nazism and the Holocaust, the State of Israel, and the Arab-Israeli conflict. How
the works of these philosophers and writers can be variously interpreted will be
considered through the discussion of competing analyses of their interventions. The cases
we will consider are the Dreyfus Affair, Heidegger‘s Nazism, Levinas and Israel, Arendt
and the Eichmann trial, and Badiou‘s interventions into the Arab-Israeli conflict. This set
of figures and flashpoints provide a skeletal overview of twentieth-century European
thought. The point of the cases, however, is to provide a spur to the students own
research, which would then focus on any aspect of ―intellectuals and politics‖ (i.e.
generally an individual figure and a specific political conflict) that they would want to
develop in their own research, in consolation with me and at least one faculty member
from their major.
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