Aner Barzilay
I earned my BA in history and philsophy from Tel Aviv University, where I developed a keen interest in modern European intellectual history. During graduate school I wish to focus on the development of philosophy and political thought in Europe after the Second World War, mainly in France. The war forced French intellectuals to rethink many of their national ideologies as evidenced in the immediate political questions that occupied the French intelligentsia (the renunciation of the Vichy regime and the emergence of post-colonial and communist though are both indicative of that). These issues, I believe, were crucial to the development of modern French though and contributed much to its uniqueness. In addition, I would also like to examine the influences of the war on German though. Some of my other fields of interest include the philosophy of history, nationalism, psychoanalysis and the existence of affinities between continental and analytical philosophy in the twentieth century.
