Defrosting Humanism - Wartime Reflections

This talk presents an auto-ethnographic project that emerged from the shock and ruin of the October 7th massacre and the subsequent war between Israel and Hamas. The project focuses on the author's loss of a humanistic worldview and her attempts at regaining it through practicing what she terms "radical humanism," defined as keeping fidelity to humanism even when one has no intuitive understanding of the concept. As the project portrays, in the process of keeping fidelity to a concept that loses its meaning, radical humanism provided a way to regain the meaning of humanism not as a clear concept but as an open-ended, ambiguous one.