Gal Hertz
Biographic Data
| ID | 297024 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gal Hertz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gal |
| FAMILY NAME | Hertz |
| SIGNATURE | HERTZ G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1624-278X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Narratives of Resistance
This article examines two of Foucault’s case studies – those of two young people who faced impossible lives. Both documented their life-stories in memoirs. The first is Pierre Rivière (1815–35), who murdered his mother, sister and brother. The second is Herculine Barbin (1838–68), an intersex person who lived as a woman and later was reassigned as a male. While Foucault reads their memoirs as subjectivizing processes, as failures to subscribe to …
Poetic Thinking Today
Amir Eshel has an ambitious project, which he began formulating in his previous book, Futurity (2013), and which his current collection of essays further extends and develops. To borrow a phrase from Bruno Latour, Eshel believes that literary studies “ran out of steam” and literary scholars often focus on the pains and melancholic memories of a traumatic past, rather than acknowledge the rich potential of poetic expression to generate new possibi…
Narratives of justice
Robert Cover’s essay ‘Nomos and Narrative’ (1983) outlines a programme for an ambitious yet incomplete theory of law. While many interpreters focus on how it readdresses nomos, less attention is given to Cover’s notion of narrative. For Cover, narrative is not simply a complement to law that serves to pluralize it, but a key for a different conception of what law is, how it is constituted, and how it relates to sovereignty, morality and social co…
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Narratives of justice
Robert Cover’s essay ‘Nomos and Narrative’ (1983) outlines a programme for an ambitious yet incomplete theory of law. While many interpreters focus on how it readdresses nomos, less attention is given to Cover’s notion of narrative. For Cover, narrative is not simply a complement to law that serves to pluralize it, but a key for a different conception of what law is, how it is constituted, and how it relates to sovereignty, morality and social co…
Poetic Thinking Today
Amir Eshel has an ambitious project, which he began formulating in his previous book, Futurity (2013), and which his current collection of essays further extends and develops. To borrow a phrase from Bruno Latour, Eshel believes that literary studies “ran out of steam” and literary scholars often focus on the pains and melancholic memories of a traumatic past, rather than acknowledge the rich potential of poetic expression to generate new possibi…
Narratives of Resistance
This article examines two of Foucault’s case studies – those of two young people who faced impossible lives. Both documented their life-stories in memoirs. The first is Pierre Rivière (1815–35), who murdered his mother, sister and brother. The second is Herculine Barbin (1838–68), an intersex person who lived as a woman and later was reassigned as a male. While Foucault reads their memoirs as subjectivizing processes, as failures to subscribe to …
Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)