Hagi Kenaan
Biographic Data
| ID | 308361 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hagi Kenaan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hagi |
| FAMILY NAME | Kenaan |
| SIGNATURE | KENAAN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3296-3605 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Secret of Becoming Nobody … and Everybody
The article unpacks Deleuze’s understanding of the radical potential lying in Kierkegaard’s notion of subjectivity. It explains why Kierkegaard’s figure of the knight of faith is pertinent for our present age and traces the manner in which Deleuze reconstructs this figure for developing his own concept of becoming and, specifically, of ‘becoming nobody’. But why is Deleuze, a self-proclaimed philosopher of difference, attracted to the idea of ‘be…
Making Sense With Death: A Response to Heidegger
What can Death mean today in times in which the technological conception of life conjures up new visions of overcoming death? We address this question here by critically examining the Heideggerian ontology of human finitude. For Heidegger, mortality is an essential mark of our being human. Only human beings can exist and thus die in the full sense of the word. It often seems that in accepting Heidegger’s vision of Dasein as a being-in-the-world, …
Celan and Heidegger at the Mountain of Death: Listening to Hope
In “Todtnauberg,” the poem in which Paul Celan responded to his encounter with Martin Heidegger, the concept of hope becomes central. The paper focuses on the ways in which hope figures in between the poet and the philosopher, showing that their different understanding of the value of hope is indicative of a much deeper disagreement that calls for an investigation. This investigation is neither analytic nor purely conceptual, but requires us to d…
Husserl and Levinas: The Ethical Structure of a Philosophical Debt
The article examines Levinas’s evolving relationship with Husserl. It shows how the critical dialogue with Husserl and, specifically, the transfiguration of Husserl’s key notion of “intentionality,” grounds the maturation of Levinas’s ethical thinking. It does so by unpacking the manner in which the Levinasian critique of Husserl is tied to a concept of “debt” through which Levinas understands his long-lasting relationship with the founder of phe…
Photography and Its Shadow
Philosophy's Moods: The Affective Grounds of Thinking
Philosophy's Moods: The Affective Grounds of Thinking
Facing Images: After Levinas
This paper seeks to articulate the significance of an intimate connection that exists between faces and images. It argues that the manner in which images face us – a picture's turning toward a viewer – is the primary condition of its meaningfulness. The article explicates the significance of an image's facing through a dialogue with Emmanuel Levinas's philosophical understanding of the human face. The analogy I draw between Levinas's notion of th…
What Makes an Image Singular Plural? Questions to Jean-Luc Nancy
This article examines the connection between Jean-Luc Nancy’s thinking of images and his radical ontology of the singular plural. It shows how Heidegger’s conception of Dasein becomes operative in Nancy’s understanding of the visual and examines the implications which Nancy’s critique of Heidegger carries for a new ontology of the image. The article’s central concern is the question of what it means for a philosophy of the visual to embrace the s…
Language, philosophy and the risk of failure: Rereading the debate between Searle and Derrida
Facing Images: After Levinas
This paper seeks to articulate the significance of an intimate connection that exists between faces and images. It argues that the manner in which images face us – a picture's turning toward a viewer – is the primary condition of its meaningfulness. The article explicates the significance of an image's facing through a dialogue with Emmanuel Levinas's philosophical understanding of the human face. The analogy I draw between Levinas's notion of th…
Making Sense With Death: A Response to Heidegger
What can Death mean today in times in which the technological conception of life conjures up new visions of overcoming death? We address this question here by critically examining the Heideggerian ontology of human finitude. For Heidegger, mortality is an essential mark of our being human. Only human beings can exist and thus die in the full sense of the word. It often seems that in accepting Heidegger’s vision of Dasein as a being-in-the-world, …
Husserl and Levinas: The Ethical Structure of a Philosophical Debt
The article examines Levinas’s evolving relationship with Husserl. It shows how the critical dialogue with Husserl and, specifically, the transfiguration of Husserl’s key notion of “intentionality,” grounds the maturation of Levinas’s ethical thinking. It does so by unpacking the manner in which the Levinasian critique of Husserl is tied to a concept of “debt” through which Levinas understands his long-lasting relationship with the founder of phe…
Photography and Its Shadow
Language, philosophy and the risk of failure: Rereading the debate between Searle and Derrida
What Makes an Image Singular Plural? Questions to Jean-Luc Nancy
This article examines the connection between Jean-Luc Nancy’s thinking of images and his radical ontology of the singular plural. It shows how Heidegger’s conception of Dasein becomes operative in Nancy’s understanding of the visual and examines the implications which Nancy’s critique of Heidegger carries for a new ontology of the image. The article’s central concern is the question of what it means for a philosophy of the visual to embrace the s…
Philosophy's Moods: The Affective Grounds of Thinking
Philosophy's Moods: The Affective Grounds of Thinking
Facing Images: After Levinas
This paper seeks to articulate the significance of an intimate connection that exists between faces and images. It argues that the manner in which images face us – a picture's turning toward a viewer – is the primary condition of its meaningfulness. The article explicates the significance of an image's facing through a dialogue with Emmanuel Levinas's philosophical understanding of the human face. The analogy I draw between Levinas's notion of th…
Photography and Its Shadow
Husserl and Levinas: The Ethical Structure of a Philosophical Debt
The article examines Levinas’s evolving relationship with Husserl. It shows how the critical dialogue with Husserl and, specifically, the transfiguration of Husserl’s key notion of “intentionality,” grounds the maturation of Levinas’s ethical thinking. It does so by unpacking the manner in which the Levinasian critique of Husserl is tied to a concept of “debt” through which Levinas understands his long-lasting relationship with the founder of phe…
Celan and Heidegger at the Mountain of Death: Listening to Hope
In “Todtnauberg,” the poem in which Paul Celan responded to his encounter with Martin Heidegger, the concept of hope becomes central. The paper focuses on the ways in which hope figures in between the poet and the philosopher, showing that their different understanding of the value of hope is indicative of a much deeper disagreement that calls for an investigation. This investigation is neither analytic nor purely conceptual, but requires us to d…
Making Sense With Death: A Response to Heidegger
What can Death mean today in times in which the technological conception of life conjures up new visions of overcoming death? We address this question here by critically examining the Heideggerian ontology of human finitude. For Heidegger, mortality is an essential mark of our being human. Only human beings can exist and thus die in the full sense of the word. It often seems that in accepting Heidegger’s vision of Dasein as a being-in-the-world, …
The Secret of Becoming Nobody … and Everybody
The article unpacks Deleuze’s understanding of the radical potential lying in Kierkegaard’s notion of subjectivity. It explains why Kierkegaard’s figure of the knight of faith is pertinent for our present age and traces the manner in which Deleuze reconstructs this figure for developing his own concept of becoming and, specifically, of ‘becoming nobody’. But why is Deleuze, a self-proclaimed philosopher of difference, attracted to the idea of ‘be…
Epistemology (8 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (5 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)