Ilit Ferber
Prof. Ilit Ferber is associate professor of philosophy at Tel-Aviv University.
Her research focuses on the philosophy of emotions, especially melancholy, suffering and pain, from the perspective of language. Her monograph Philosophy and Melancholy: Benjamin's Early Reflections on Theater and Language (Stanford University Press in 2013) explores the role of melancholy in Benjamin's early writings and discusses the relationship between Benjamin, Freud and Leibniz.
Ilit has published articles on Leibniz, Herder, Freud, Benjamin, Heidegger, Scholem and Améry. She has also co-edited a book on the role of moods in philosophy, and two books, in English and Hebrew, on lament in Gershom Scholem’s thought. Her book Language Pangs: On Pain and the Origin of Language is forthcoming in Oxford University Press.
My Homepage: ilitferber.com
Her research focuses on the philosophy of emotions, especially melancholy, suffering and pain, from the perspective of language. Her monograph Philosophy and Melancholy: Benjamin's Early Reflections on Theater and Language (Stanford University Press in 2013) explores the role of melancholy in Benjamin's early writings and discusses the relationship between Benjamin, Freud and Leibniz.
Ilit has published articles on Leibniz, Herder, Freud, Benjamin, Heidegger, Scholem and Améry. She has also co-edited a book on the role of moods in philosophy, and two books, in English and Hebrew, on lament in Gershom Scholem’s thought. Her book Language Pangs: On Pain and the Origin of Language is forthcoming in Oxford University Press.
My Homepage: ilitferber.com
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Books by Ilit Ferber
Este libro incluye ensayos de: L Felipe Alarcón; Matías Bascuñán; Ilit Ferber; Jérôme Lèbre; Aïcha Liviana Messina; Andrea Potestà; Fabián Ludueña Romandini; François-David Sebbah; Emmanuel Taub.
The concept underlying the exhibition Never Looked Better —introducing a current reading of Leni and Herbert Sonnenfeld’s unique vision by contemporary artists — poses a challenge of exploration to the Israeli audience, compelling viewers to look through and beyond the visible image. The interpretations offered by artists Yael Bartana, Michael Blum, Ilya Rabinovich, Yochai Avrahami, Yossi Attia and Itamar Rose are innovative and variegated, offering the viewer the excitement and thrill experienced by the Sonnenfelds as they witnessed the actual events or participated in them, in real time.
Papers by Ilit Ferber
Este libro incluye ensayos de: L Felipe Alarcón; Matías Bascuñán; Ilit Ferber; Jérôme Lèbre; Aïcha Liviana Messina; Andrea Potestà; Fabián Ludueña Romandini; François-David Sebbah; Emmanuel Taub.
The concept underlying the exhibition Never Looked Better —introducing a current reading of Leni and Herbert Sonnenfeld’s unique vision by contemporary artists — poses a challenge of exploration to the Israeli audience, compelling viewers to look through and beyond the visible image. The interpretations offered by artists Yael Bartana, Michael Blum, Ilya Rabinovich, Yochai Avrahami, Yossi Attia and Itamar Rose are innovative and variegated, offering the viewer the excitement and thrill experienced by the Sonnenfelds as they witnessed the actual events or participated in them, in real time.
This workshop is the seventh event in a series of gatherings that fall under the epigraph of “Violence in Philosophy and Literature”. It has taken place previously on “Language and Violence” (Tel Aviv University), “Space and Violence” (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw), “Thinking and Writing – Disruption” (ZfL Berlin), “Violence Incorporated” (University of Chicago), “Sound and Violence” (Collège International Paris), and on “Time and Violence” (Goethe University, Frankfurt).
During our workshop we will address these and other questions concerning the relations between time and violence in an interdisciplinary mode, with philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, literature, literary theory, and visual art as our fields of reference. Special emphasis will be put on long, in-depth, free discussion of individual papers. A close reading and discussion of time and violence in Shakespeare’s Hamlet will be an integral part of the workshop. [...]
The workshop is the fourth part of a series of gatherings that fall under the epigraph of "Violence in Philosophy and Literature". These gatherings were particularly devoted to discuss the question of 'language' (Tel Aviv University), of 'space' (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw), and that of 'writing' (ZfL Berlin) in both fields. As in the previous years, the discussion of the individual papers will be followed by a close reading and discussion of a single literary text and a film screening, which will catalyze the exchange on violence and incorporation.
H8.05 & H8.06 Building H. Caulfield Campus
The RUEP is holding a workshop with Dr Ilit Ferber from the Department of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University.
Her overall projects starts with a reconsideration of the relation between language and pain in four philosophical theories of language: those of Herder, Rousseau, Wittgenstein, and Benjamin. The project seeks to undermine the traditional separation between emotions and the body on the one hand, and linguistic expression on the other. Hence the project is positioned against the idea that language’s emergence is necessarily bound up with an essential separation of the body and its most powerful sensations, pain being a paradigmatic instance. Despite philosophy’s traditional separation of language from pain, the two remain nevertheless securely entangled, most evidently at language’s original moments; moments which reveal a surprisingly productive intimacy between pain and language, an intimacy that cannot be easily dismissed.
In the first part of the workshop she will present the framework of the project in detail and discuss the philosophical, linguistic and moral implications of bringing pain and language together. In the second part, there will be a close reading of some of the texts essential to the project. The texts will be made available to all those who wish to participate in the workshop.