Anat biletzki biography of williams

  • Biletzki is a longtime professor of philosophy at Tel Aviv University and has traveled as a visiting scholar or fellow to institutions around the world.
  • Anat Biletzki is professor of philosophy at Tel Aviv University and Albert Schweitzer Professor of Philosophy at Quinnipiac University.
  • Biletzki has been active in the peace movement and in several human rights projects in Israel for over 25 years.

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    Bubble : Anat Biletzki



    Bubble : Anat Biletzki

    Introduction

    Is “bubble” a concept, except in the trivial sense in which every word ensconced in quotes becomes a concept, or rather a “concept”? More pertinently, is it a political concept? Is the philosophical exercise of making it a political concept a legitimate exercise, or, does such an exercise run the professional risk of philosophical facetiousness? And, bounding over the philosophical hazards, are we not enjoined to also explicitly and essentially explicate the political in “political concept”? Of the many concepts entertained in a project of lexicon-building, “bubble” appears especially suspect of being an interloper. We aspire to lay this suspicion to rest; “bubble” will satisfy the criteria of being a political concept precisely, even if indirectly, by our recognition of political bubbles.

    Let us begin, then, with differential diagnosis, pinpointing those bubbles of ostensibly ordinary discourse which will not serve this exercise. Think of famous bubbles, and invariably what comes to mind are Macbeth’s witches intoning—

    Double, double toil and trouble;
    Fire burn and caldron bubble.

    (Macbeth, Act 4, Scene 1)

    It is, also, in another Macbethian locus that we ascertain another, somewhat dif

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    Bernard Reginster (Brown)

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    Introduction

    Abstract

    “The wiser a man is,” thought Leibniz, “the fewer detached intentions he has, and the more the views and intentions he does have are comprehensive and interconnected.” And Wittgenstein told us that understanding consists in “seeing connexions”. This book is an exercise in making connections — between language and politics. But rather than embarking on a theoretical, analytical enterprise joining linguistic and political concepts the exercise limits itself to a “case study”: Thomas Hobbes, in many parts considered the father of modern political science. It is based on the notion that a worked out political theory should be accompanied by an equally worked out philosophy of language — worked out by us, if not by Hobbes. It is furthermore motivated by a desire to rectify the apparent imbalance between the two — the traditional consensus that his political thought is systematic, scientific, original (and all the other complimentary labels it attracts) while his language philosophy is, at best, sporadically consistent.

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    References

    1. William Sacksteder, “Hobbes: Teaching Philosophy to Speak English,” Journal of the History of Philosop