Papers by Namita Herzl
Global Handbook of Inequality, 2024
Sharmila Rege, a pioneering feminist scholar, transformed women's studies in India. This chapter ... more Sharmila Rege, a pioneering feminist scholar, transformed women's studies in India. This chapter honours her legacy by exploring her innovative approaches to global discrimination. Rege critiqued Western feminist frameworks for failing to capture the realities of Indian women, advocating for an intersectional feminism that considers caste, class, religion, and region. Her research highlighted caste as a system of oppression, especially impacting Dalit women.
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EAJP, 2022
How a philosophical global history can be constituted is a question that has not yet found a conc... more How a philosophical global history can be constituted is a question that has not yet found a concrete and generally accepted answer. If one compares the approaches of global histories of philosophy that have appeared so far, it becomes clear that some of them dier greatly from one another in their approaches and in the topics they deal with. This article analyzes various global histories of philosophy by comparing the content of selected publications in order to find out which cultures, systems of thought, and traditions are favoured in these writings and which focal points can be found in a comparative approach. This review focuses on eight works that can be described as global histories of philosophy.
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polylog - Zeitschrift für interkulturelles Philosophieren , 2021
How a philosophical global history can be constituted is a question that has not yet found a conc... more How a philosophical global history can be constituted is a question that has not yet found a concrete and generally accepted answer. If one compares the approaches of global histories of philosophy that have appeared so far, it becomes clear that some of them differ greatly from one another in their approaches and in the topics they deal with. Various global histories of philosophy are analyzed in the following article by comparing the content of selected publications in order to find out which cultures, systems of thought, and traditions are favoured in these writings and which focal points can be found in a comparative approach. Eight works that can be described as global histories of philosophy stand in focus of this review.
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Globalization processes are increasingly shedding a new light not only on our present but also on... more Globalization processes are increasingly shedding a new light not only on our present but also on our history. As a result, the humanities are under more pressure than ever to link their perspectives and research topics with the process of globalization. Moreover, there is a factual need to reassess and reconceptualize our past, present and future in the context of globalization. (Mersmann/Kippenberg 2016) For more than 20 years, a critical re-assessment and reconceptualization of our past in the humanities, for example in the history departments within the framework of 'global history', has progressively taken on distinctly new contours, giving rise to new narratives of world history as interconnected or entangled histories (i.a. Reinhard 2016, Osterhammel 2009, Conrad 2013). This new idea not only helps to better understand past and present developments, but also points the way to a future determined by entangled histories. In philosophy and its historiography there is still a considerable need for research and innovation in this respect, which has become even more urgent after the World Congress of Philosophy in Beijing in August 2018, where English, French, German, Russian, Arabic, and Chinese were the official languages. From the perspective of the World Congresses of Philosophy, the intellectual landscape has become increasingly globalized in the 20 th century; yet the presentation of its history has not been similarly renewed in accordance with these developments. Our task today is therefore to create a new conception of the history of philosophy that, at the same time, prepares future forms of philosophizing from a global perspective in an open discourse. In order to be able to do this, various fields of research need to be studied: problem analysis, new paradigms of representation, and the consequences in terms of content and institutions. Our project therefore involves the analyses and development of the following: 1. The persisting mechanisms of exclusion which gradually made philosophy a purely European project since the end of the 18 th century. 2. Explorations of the histories of philosophy cooperatively with philologies that emerged in Europe since the 19 th century, for example in Indology, Sinology, Japanology, Arabic Studies, and Jewish Studies. 3. Closer examinations of the histories of philosophy-not solely dedicated to traditions of European philosophy-which have emerged in various European and non-European languages, such as Japanese, Chinese or Arabic. 4. Conceptualizations of entangled histories for the history of philosophy with a focus on translation and reception processes. 5. Exploration and analyses of the previous outlines of a global historiography of philosophy, in order to include the horizons developed so far in the search for new narratives of the history/ies of philosophy. 6. An investigatory genealogy of the historiography of philosophy from the paradigm of "peoples", "nations", and "religions" to "continents", "spheres" (East/West), epochs, various "languages", "cultures", and "genders" as classification and systematization criteria of philosophies. 7. Examination and analyses of the global institutionalization of philosophy as an academic discipline at universities since the 20 th century and its impact on teaching and research in philosophy.
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H-Soz-Kult, 12.06.2019
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Transcultural Studies, 2016
The paper examines the connection between the situation of women in philosophy and feminist knowl... more The paper examines the connection between the situation of women in philosophy and feminist knowledge. Feminist knowledge refers, on this occasion, not only to scientific knowledge, but also to knowledge on the problems of women in philosophy. The focus is on the role of the young woman and the hurdles which she needs to negotiate in order to gain a foothold in the scientific field. The investigation into this problem takes the form of a case study, which demonstrates the gendered discrimination in the scientific sphere at the universities.
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Master Thesis by Namita Herzl
According to Spinoza's only definition of the concept of love, love is a joy accompanied by the i... more According to Spinoza's only definition of the concept of love, love is a joy accompanied by the idea of an external cause (IIIad6) . Looking closely at the Ethica, Spinoza speaks of at
least two types of human love: on the one hand, according to his definition, love is a human finite affect of joy. On the other hand, love emerges in the Ethica as infinite intellectual love of God (Vp35).
My question is: Of which concept of love does Spinoza speak, if on the one hand he describes love as a finite human affect, and on the other hand as eternal love of God?
According to a monistic interpretation of love, Spinoza would be speaking of one undifferentiated kind of love in the Ethica. Another interpretation would be to understand love dualistically. According to this view, there is a clear distinction between affective human love and spiritual love of God. Thirdly, love can be interpreted gradualistically, where the degree of perfection is used as the primary criterion for analyzing the differences of the various forms of love. Fourth, and to be argued for, there is the possibility of understanding Spinoza's love multidimensionally.
The multidimensionality of love results from various differentiations between love phenomena, that effect several dimensions on one hand can be clearly distinguished from each other, and on the other hand are interdependent to another. The pointing out of Spinoza's multidimensional concept of love is of importance to emphasize the complexity of Spinozistic love. The multifacetedness of the concept of love must be highlighted for a differentiated analysis of Spinozas love, which is accomplished by a multidimensional interpretation.
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DG Phil , 2024
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Kontrapunkte.Hypotheses, 2023
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polylog. Zeitschrift für interkulturelles Philosophieren, 2022
»Geisteswissenschaften – Eurozentrismus – Kritik« vom 19. bis 23. Juli 2022 an der Akademie der W... more »Geisteswissenschaften – Eurozentrismus – Kritik« vom 19. bis 23. Juli 2022 an der Akademie der Wissenschaften Berlin, eine vom Reinhart-Koselleck-Projekt »Geschichten der Philosophie in globaler Perspektive« und dem »Herder-Kolleg – Zentrum für transdisziplinäre Kultur- forschung« der Universität Hildesheim organisierte internationale Tagung.
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H-Soz-Kult, 2019
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Georg Olms Verlag, 2024
The reprint of the book "Acta Philosopharum, das ist, Nachricht von der Philosophie des Frauenzi... more The reprint of the book "Acta Philosopharum, das ist, Nachricht von der Philosophie des Frauenzimmers" (1721) by Christoph August Heumann is a unique work that illuminates the lives and philosophical contributions of 33 outstanding women from the European history of philosophy and provides a comprehensive commentary on women philosophers by the editors. It also presents an overview of the history of women philosophers since the 14th century. Through its extensive commentary and historical overview, the volume opens up new perspectives on the historically largely underrepresented group of philosophizing women.
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least two types of human love: on the one hand, according to his definition, love is a human finite affect of joy. On the other hand, love emerges in the Ethica as infinite intellectual love of God (Vp35).
My question is: Of which concept of love does Spinoza speak, if on the one hand he describes love as a finite human affect, and on the other hand as eternal love of God?
According to a monistic interpretation of love, Spinoza would be speaking of one undifferentiated kind of love in the Ethica. Another interpretation would be to understand love dualistically. According to this view, there is a clear distinction between affective human love and spiritual love of God. Thirdly, love can be interpreted gradualistically, where the degree of perfection is used as the primary criterion for analyzing the differences of the various forms of love. Fourth, and to be argued for, there is the possibility of understanding Spinoza's love multidimensionally.
The multidimensionality of love results from various differentiations between love phenomena, that effect several dimensions on one hand can be clearly distinguished from each other, and on the other hand are interdependent to another. The pointing out of Spinoza's multidimensional concept of love is of importance to emphasize the complexity of Spinozistic love. The multifacetedness of the concept of love must be highlighted for a differentiated analysis of Spinozas love, which is accomplished by a multidimensional interpretation.
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least two types of human love: on the one hand, according to his definition, love is a human finite affect of joy. On the other hand, love emerges in the Ethica as infinite intellectual love of God (Vp35).
My question is: Of which concept of love does Spinoza speak, if on the one hand he describes love as a finite human affect, and on the other hand as eternal love of God?
According to a monistic interpretation of love, Spinoza would be speaking of one undifferentiated kind of love in the Ethica. Another interpretation would be to understand love dualistically. According to this view, there is a clear distinction between affective human love and spiritual love of God. Thirdly, love can be interpreted gradualistically, where the degree of perfection is used as the primary criterion for analyzing the differences of the various forms of love. Fourth, and to be argued for, there is the possibility of understanding Spinoza's love multidimensionally.
The multidimensionality of love results from various differentiations between love phenomena, that effect several dimensions on one hand can be clearly distinguished from each other, and on the other hand are interdependent to another. The pointing out of Spinoza's multidimensional concept of love is of importance to emphasize the complexity of Spinozistic love. The multifacetedness of the concept of love must be highlighted for a differentiated analysis of Spinozas love, which is accomplished by a multidimensional interpretation.