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Professor Anat Biletzki on Hannah Arendt and Human Rights

In three lectures going on the 3rd, 4th and 5th of October all days at 12:15-14:00 pm, Professor Anat Biletzki will be focusing om Hannah Arendt and human rights.

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Besides the works of Hannah Arendt particularly the following chapters from The Origins of Totalitarianism”: Harcourt, Orlando, Austin , New York 1968: The decline of the Nation State and the End of the Rights of Man” (chapter 9), ”Totalitarianism in Power ”(ch. 12 ) and ”Ideology and Terror” (ch. 13) Biltezki will use the following text as a background for her lectures:

  1. Serena Parekh, "A meaningful place in the world: Hannah Arendt on the nature of human rights," Journal of Human Rights 3/1 (2004), 41-52. Tilgjengelig fra: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1475483042000185215
  1. Peg Birmingham, "The An-Archic Event of Natality and the 'Right to Have Rights'," Social Research 74/3 (2007), 763-776. Tilgjengelig fra: http://muse.jhu.edu/article/527575/pdf
  1. Christoph Menke, Birgit Kaiser and Kathrin Thiele, "The 'Aporias of Human Rights' and the 'One Human Right': Regarding the Coherence of Hannah Arendt's Argument," Social Research 74/3 (2007), 739-762. Tilgjengelig på: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/527574/pdf
  1. Idith Zertal, "A State on Trial: Hannah Arendt vs. the State of Israel," Social Research 74/4 (2007), 1127-1158. Tilgjengelig fra: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/527597/pdf

 

The following web pages give some interesting pictures of Anat Biletzki as philosopher and as active in the peace movement and in several human rights projects in Israel.

From Public Squares to Check-points: Women of the Occupation in Israel/Palestine

World People's Blog: Anat Biletzki - Israel

Human Rights and Politics in Israel-Palestine (at videolectures.net)

Philosophy Professor Anat Biletzki’s “philosophy” is to smear Israel abroad, by Lee Kaplan