When I began my studies at UCLA, my more advanced friends couldn’t stop talking about Carlo Ginzburg. He was their image of the total intellectual. One would

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Several key leaders stayed away because of the inclusion of far-right politicians from Europe.

Is Time Running Out? Buber, Benjamin, Arendt, and Celan on Temporality. – UCL, Wed 14 Jan 2026 - This is an in person event at UCL and  hybrid on zoom. Refreshments will be served from 6.00 pm and the...

In a previous pieces in this series I’ve discussed Étienne Wolff’s work on the biology of monsters, some of which was written during his time in Oflag XVII-A during the Second World War. (An Oflag …

Europa und die USA sind für Menschenrechts­verletzungen in Gaza mitverantwortlich. Der Krieg ruft Assoziationen zu den Nürnberger Prozessen wach.

Lawmakers on key committee have quoted Hitler and are associated with calls for Jews to convert to Christianity

The act returns to the Senate in a changed political climate.

More than two dozen are joining a legal effort to free a Tufts University student the Trump administration is trying to deport because of her pro-Palestinian views.

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By analyzing the concept of time, Nitzan Lebovic explores Buber's stress on the temporality of the dialogue between I and Thou

There are some good histories of the Linguistic Circle of Prague, which met in the years before the Second World War, and which included Russian scholars as well as ones from Czechoslovakia. J…

Homo Temporalis focuses on the importance of temporal concepts for four German Jewish thinkers who profoundly shaped twentieth-century intellectual history: Martin Buber, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arend...

Homo Temporalis focuses on the importance of temporal concepts for four German Jewish thinkers who profoundly shaped twentieth-century intellectual history: Martin Buber, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arend...

Without cultivating a strong sense of solidarity with mass numbers of people we’ll never meet, we’re doomed to slip further into atomized isolation and defeat.