Zali Gurevitch
Biographic Data
| ID | 106729 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zali Gurevitch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zali |
| FAMILY NAME | Gurevitch |
| SIGNATURE | GUREVITCH Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 102 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
What Is a Field
Writing Through
The poetic moment in social science brings up questions of poetics, such as what makes writing poetic, and what are the critical shifts introduced by poetic writing? In the present article, the idea of poetics is explored through the notion of transfiguration. Transfiguration is a combination of trans and figuration. It holds both an idea of closure, namely, the figurative, the bring ing into form, and an idea of opening, namely, the sense of pas…
Dialectical dialogue
In the present essay I intend to explore 'dialectical dialogue' in three distinct moments: the battle for recognition, the ethics of giving recognition, and the multiplicity of conversation. The essay begins with Hegel's figures of Master and Slave portraying the struggle of speech for recognition. This struggle culminates in a duel for mastery, which implies the repression and silencing of the other's speech. Ethical dialogue comes as a response…
The Serious Play of Writing
This article describes the serious artist as originating from moments of broken play. It distinguishes between two types of seriousness: disciplinary seriousness (taking on oneself the responsibilities of an adult expert who abides by the rules of the game) and poetic seriousness (revealed from the point of view of the child whose play has been exposed). Two autobiographical moments are recounted, exemplifying the latter type of seriousness, and …
Plurality in Dialogue
In the following analysis I will focus on Bakhtin's concept of dialogical plurality, arguing that in spite of his position against the finalization of speech and his attack on monologistic, authoritarian unity, his dialogism is itself based on a supposition of wholeness. By insisting on dialogue as a remedy, Bakhtin's dialogism tends to oversimplify the instability and threat inherent in dialogue. The present study explores plurality as dependent…
The Tongue's Break Dance
In the present essay the participation of the body as tongue in the ritual of speech and conversation is depicted in terms of performance. To reveal the intricate relations between body and language, moments of impediment in the flow of speech are explored as events that inform the tongue's performance and make it a kind of break dance, a dance whose breaks and silences are not merely deficiencies in the machine of talk but are part of the inform…
The Symposium
The Break of Conversation
The present essay explores conversation as a phenomenon of mutual turning (con‐versation). The act of turning reveals a basic tension between two approaches – that which puts the unmediated turn as the basis of dialogue (as in Buber’s I and Thou), and the present approach that regards speech and the creative text as part and parcel of the conversational turn. The controversy is brought to the point of “break” which is both theoretical and referin…
Pamela Levy
The Possibility of Conversation
In the present article I am concerned with conversation as a way of participation. Hearing, speaking, and silence will cross and create the possibilities of the conversational space I explore. The question of participation opens the essay and leads to the notion of incision both between and within speakers. Speaking is depicted as basically cut by an unheard, repressed silence. The unsilencing of silence evokes a conversation conscious of itself …
The Land of Israel
Hamakom-”the place”-has a twofold meaning. On the one hand, it refers to a specific stretch of land on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean where modern Israel is located. On the other hand, it is an idea, a voice, a thought in relation to which the tangible place, as its earthly manifestation, is secondary. Place as idea resists the human tendency to restrict and bind it to mere corporeal place.
Never in Place
La question du lieu est centrale en Israël. La réalité israélienne est la conséquence du mouvement de retour des juifs à leur ancien lieu et, de ce fait, du retour du "lieu" à l'avant du discours juif. Leur retour au lieu confronte les Israéliens non seulement aux Palestiniens mais aussi à eux-mêmes en tant que juifs peu enclins à se considérer comme de vulgaires autochtones enfermés dans les limites d'un territoire circonscrit. Pour le judaïsme …
The Communicative Body
The Dialogic Connection and the Ethics of Dialogue
The Embrace
This article develops the notion that non-distance is a constitutive element in human relations. The essential difference between body-engagement as a relation of non-distance and face-engagement (comprising eye-contact and talk) as a relation of distance is demonstrated. Body-engagement reduces distance and the separate self/body dissolves through touch. The full significance of touch as an encounter and a merging together of bodies is found in …
The Power of Not Understanding
Attempts to establish dialogue between conflicting identities usually focus on mutual understanding and the common, while downplaying the elements of the conflict and ignoring the element of otherness, which is especially important for conflicts in which the other is the opposite of the self. This article suggests real dialogue requires that the parties first acknowledge this otherness as the distance between them. Thus, the ability to not unders…
Distance and Conversation
Whenever faces are engaged in a face-to-face conversation distance is evoked between them as a 'common dialogic space' that both connects and separates. This space must be dealt with in conversation. The habitual tendency is to cover it up by formulating a topic that is external to the immediate relation. Keeping the topic going 'holds' the separate parties together in an ongoing engagement. When the topic for some reason fails to hold, the gap b…
The Other Side of Dialogue
The central assumption of phenomenological and related approaches holds that the possibility of mutual understanding and communication in interpersonal relations in contingent on the supposition of the sameness of self and other. Under this assumption, the otherness of the other is conceived as an obstacle to achieving mutual understanding. Thus, the categories of stranger and strangeness are not considered constitutive of interpersonal communica…
Impression Formation During Tactical Self-Presentation
The Other Side of Dialogue
The central assumption of phenomenological and related approaches holds that the possibility of mutual understanding and communication in interpersonal relations in contingent on the supposition of the sameness of self and other. Under this assumption, the otherness of the other is conceived as an obstacle to achieving mutual understanding. Thus, the categories of stranger and strangeness are not considered constitutive of interpersonal communica…
Dialectical dialogue
In the present essay I intend to explore 'dialectical dialogue' in three distinct moments: the battle for recognition, the ethics of giving recognition, and the multiplicity of conversation. The essay begins with Hegel's figures of Master and Slave portraying the struggle of speech for recognition. This struggle culminates in a duel for mastery, which implies the repression and silencing of the other's speech. Ethical dialogue comes as a response…
The Dialogic Connection and the Ethics of Dialogue
Distance and Conversation
Whenever faces are engaged in a face-to-face conversation distance is evoked between them as a 'common dialogic space' that both connects and separates. This space must be dealt with in conversation. The habitual tendency is to cover it up by formulating a topic that is external to the immediate relation. Keeping the topic going 'holds' the separate parties together in an ongoing engagement. When the topic for some reason fails to hold, the gap b…
The Possibility of Conversation
In the present article I am concerned with conversation as a way of participation. Hearing, speaking, and silence will cross and create the possibilities of the conversational space I explore. The question of participation opens the essay and leads to the notion of incision both between and within speakers. Speaking is depicted as basically cut by an unheard, repressed silence. The unsilencing of silence evokes a conversation conscious of itself …
Writing Through
The poetic moment in social science brings up questions of poetics, such as what makes writing poetic, and what are the critical shifts introduced by poetic writing? In the present article, the idea of poetics is explored through the notion of transfiguration. Transfiguration is a combination of trans and figuration. It holds both an idea of closure, namely, the figurative, the bring ing into form, and an idea of opening, namely, the sense of pas…
Impression Formation During Tactical Self-Presentation
Plurality in Dialogue
In the following analysis I will focus on Bakhtin's concept of dialogical plurality, arguing that in spite of his position against the finalization of speech and his attack on monologistic, authoritarian unity, his dialogism is itself based on a supposition of wholeness. By insisting on dialogue as a remedy, Bakhtin's dialogism tends to oversimplify the instability and threat inherent in dialogue. The present study explores plurality as dependent…
The Tongue's Break Dance
In the present essay the participation of the body as tongue in the ritual of speech and conversation is depicted in terms of performance. To reveal the intricate relations between body and language, moments of impediment in the flow of speech are explored as events that inform the tongue's performance and make it a kind of break dance, a dance whose breaks and silences are not merely deficiencies in the machine of talk but are part of the inform…
The Break of Conversation
The present essay explores conversation as a phenomenon of mutual turning (con‐versation). The act of turning reveals a basic tension between two approaches – that which puts the unmediated turn as the basis of dialogue (as in Buber’s I and Thou), and the present approach that regards speech and the creative text as part and parcel of the conversational turn. The controversy is brought to the point of “break” which is both theoretical and referin…
The Serious Play of Writing
This article describes the serious artist as originating from moments of broken play. It distinguishes between two types of seriousness: disciplinary seriousness (taking on oneself the responsibilities of an adult expert who abides by the rules of the game) and poetic seriousness (revealed from the point of view of the child whose play has been exposed). Two autobiographical moments are recounted, exemplifying the latter type of seriousness, and …
The Embrace
This article develops the notion that non-distance is a constitutive element in human relations. The essential difference between body-engagement as a relation of non-distance and face-engagement (comprising eye-contact and talk) as a relation of distance is demonstrated. Body-engagement reduces distance and the separate self/body dissolves through touch. The full significance of touch as an encounter and a merging together of bodies is found in …
The Symposium
Never in Place
La question du lieu est centrale en Israël. La réalité israélienne est la conséquence du mouvement de retour des juifs à leur ancien lieu et, de ce fait, du retour du "lieu" à l'avant du discours juif. Leur retour au lieu confronte les Israéliens non seulement aux Palestiniens mais aussi à eux-mêmes en tant que juifs peu enclins à se considérer comme de vulgaires autochtones enfermés dans les limites d'un territoire circonscrit. Pour le judaïsme …
The Communicative Body
Impression Formation During Tactical Self-Presentation
The Other Side of Dialogue
The central assumption of phenomenological and related approaches holds that the possibility of mutual understanding and communication in interpersonal relations in contingent on the supposition of the sameness of self and other. Under this assumption, the otherness of the other is conceived as an obstacle to achieving mutual understanding. Thus, the categories of stranger and strangeness are not considered constitutive of interpersonal communica…
The Power of Not Understanding
Attempts to establish dialogue between conflicting identities usually focus on mutual understanding and the common, while downplaying the elements of the conflict and ignoring the element of otherness, which is especially important for conflicts in which the other is the opposite of the self. This article suggests real dialogue requires that the parties first acknowledge this otherness as the distance between them. Thus, the ability to not unders…
Distance and Conversation
Whenever faces are engaged in a face-to-face conversation distance is evoked between them as a 'common dialogic space' that both connects and separates. This space must be dealt with in conversation. The habitual tendency is to cover it up by formulating a topic that is external to the immediate relation. Keeping the topic going 'holds' the separate parties together in an ongoing engagement. When the topic for some reason fails to hold, the gap b…
The Dialogic Connection and the Ethics of Dialogue
The Embrace
This article develops the notion that non-distance is a constitutive element in human relations. The essential difference between body-engagement as a relation of non-distance and face-engagement (comprising eye-contact and talk) as a relation of distance is demonstrated. Body-engagement reduces distance and the separate self/body dissolves through touch. The full significance of touch as an encounter and a merging together of bodies is found in …
The Communicative Body
The Land of Israel
Hamakom-”the place”-has a twofold meaning. On the one hand, it refers to a specific stretch of land on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean where modern Israel is located. On the other hand, it is an idea, a voice, a thought in relation to which the tangible place, as its earthly manifestation, is secondary. Place as idea resists the human tendency to restrict and bind it to mere corporeal place.
Never in Place
La question du lieu est centrale en Israël. La réalité israélienne est la conséquence du mouvement de retour des juifs à leur ancien lieu et, de ce fait, du retour du "lieu" à l'avant du discours juif. Leur retour au lieu confronte les Israéliens non seulement aux Palestiniens mais aussi à eux-mêmes en tant que juifs peu enclins à se considérer comme de vulgaires autochtones enfermés dans les limites d'un territoire circonscrit. Pour le judaïsme …
The Possibility of Conversation
In the present article I am concerned with conversation as a way of participation. Hearing, speaking, and silence will cross and create the possibilities of the conversational space I explore. The question of participation opens the essay and leads to the notion of incision both between and within speakers. Speaking is depicted as basically cut by an unheard, repressed silence. The unsilencing of silence evokes a conversation conscious of itself …
Pamela Levy
The Symposium
The Break of Conversation
The present essay explores conversation as a phenomenon of mutual turning (con‐versation). The act of turning reveals a basic tension between two approaches – that which puts the unmediated turn as the basis of dialogue (as in Buber’s I and Thou), and the present approach that regards speech and the creative text as part and parcel of the conversational turn. The controversy is brought to the point of “break” which is both theoretical and referin…
The Tongue's Break Dance
In the present essay the participation of the body as tongue in the ritual of speech and conversation is depicted in terms of performance. To reveal the intricate relations between body and language, moments of impediment in the flow of speech are explored as events that inform the tongue's performance and make it a kind of break dance, a dance whose breaks and silences are not merely deficiencies in the machine of talk but are part of the inform…
The Serious Play of Writing
This article describes the serious artist as originating from moments of broken play. It distinguishes between two types of seriousness: disciplinary seriousness (taking on oneself the responsibilities of an adult expert who abides by the rules of the game) and poetic seriousness (revealed from the point of view of the child whose play has been exposed). Two autobiographical moments are recounted, exemplifying the latter type of seriousness, and …
Plurality in Dialogue
In the following analysis I will focus on Bakhtin's concept of dialogical plurality, arguing that in spite of his position against the finalization of speech and his attack on monologistic, authoritarian unity, his dialogism is itself based on a supposition of wholeness. By insisting on dialogue as a remedy, Bakhtin's dialogism tends to oversimplify the instability and threat inherent in dialogue. The present study explores plurality as dependent…
Dialectical dialogue
In the present essay I intend to explore 'dialectical dialogue' in three distinct moments: the battle for recognition, the ethics of giving recognition, and the multiplicity of conversation. The essay begins with Hegel's figures of Master and Slave portraying the struggle of speech for recognition. This struggle culminates in a duel for mastery, which implies the repression and silencing of the other's speech. Ethical dialogue comes as a response…
What Is a Field
Writing Through
The poetic moment in social science brings up questions of poetics, such as what makes writing poetic, and what are the critical shifts introduced by poetic writing? In the present article, the idea of poetics is explored through the notion of transfiguration. Transfiguration is a combination of trans and figuration. It holds both an idea of closure, namely, the figurative, the bring ing into form, and an idea of opening, namely, the sense of pas…
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