Alumni – Project at HIAS
The Here-and-Now: After Violence
What can guilt and innocence still mean in the face of collective crimes of violence? One of the first debates was between Hannah Arendt, who had fled to the USA, and her former doctoral supervisor in Heidelberg, Karl Jaspers. Both discussed the limits of the legal system in the face of National Socialist terror and its consequences. This debate still resonates today, precisely because of Arendt’s Jewish power of judgment. Derived from this, Natan Sznaider’s topic for his alumnus project is the relationship between particularism and universalism as it applies to Jewish life after the founding of the State of Israel.
His Tandem Partner is Birgit Recki, Senior Professor for Practical Philosophy, esp. Ethics, Aesthetics and Philosophy of Culture/Anthropology at the University of Hamburg
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Funding
The HIAS Fellowship is provided by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and the federal and state funds acquired by the University of Hamburg in the framework of its Excellence Strategy.
Tandem
Prof. Em. Dr. Birgit Recki, Aesthetics and Philosophy of Culture/Anthropology, University of Hamburg
Biography
Natan Sznaider is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo. Sznaider has also taught and conducted research at Columbia University, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and Ludwig Maximilian Universität in Munich. His theoretical and empirical research projects, conducted as a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich (2010, 2011, 2012, and 2022) and at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna (2003 and 2023), focus primarily on social, cultural, and political science perspectives in his analyses.
The central themes and questions of his research are cosmopolitanism, memory, anti-Semitism, sociology of knowledge, Hannah Arendt, political theory, and the Shoah.
Natan Sznaider’s HIAS Alumnus Fellowship is provided by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and the federal and state funds acquired by the University of Hamburg in the framework of its Excellence Strategy.
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Events and Lectures (Excerpt)
Publikations in the Fellow Library
- Navid Kermani, Natan Sznaider: Israel – Eine Korrespondenz. Hanser, München, 2023