- Personal
- Education
- Academic Positions and Scholarships
- List of Publications
- Selected Papers at Scientific Conferences
Personal
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Cell: 972-52-3647929
E-mail: ishayla@openu.ac.il
Education
| 2004 | Ph.D. (summa cum laude), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel. Dissertation: "Nietzschean Heroism in 20th Century Popular Culture" |
| 1999 | M.A. Studies in General History, direct track to Ph.D., Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| 1996 | B.A. (with distinction), History and Foreign Literatures, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
Academic Positions and Scholarships
| 2009 | Visiting Senior Lecturer of History, The Open University of Israel |
| 2009 – 2012 | Alon Fellowship for Outstanding Young Researchers, the Council of Higher Education, Israel |
| September 2006 – August 2008 | Post-doc fellowship with distinction: Gerhard Martin Julius Schmidt Minerva Fellowship, TU Braunschweig, Germany |
| 2002 – 2006 | Teaching (pro-)seminars, Dept. of History, Ben-Gurion University |
| October 2005 – February 2006 | Fellow of the Karl Franzens University of Graz (Institute of Contemporary History), David Herzog Funds, Austria |
| November 2000 – October 2004 | Fellow of the Kreitman School of Advanced Graduate Studies; Kreitman Foundation Fellowship for graduate and post-graduate students of exceptional excellence at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| 1999 | DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholarship for 2-month research in Wuppertal, Germany |
List of Publications
Books and Monographs
| 2009 | The Apprentice's Sorcerer: Liberal Tradition and Fascism, Brill: Leiden and Boston, 362 pp. |
| 2007 | The Overman in the Marketplace: Nietzschean Heroism in Popular Culture, Lexington: Maryland, 325 pp. |
Reference Articles
"The Absent Father: Patriarchy and Social Order in the Films of Zhang Yimou," Nature, Society, and Thought, Vol. 20, No. 2, 2007, pp. 228-234.
"Aroma and Shadow: Marx vs. Nietzsche on Religion," Nature, Society, and Thought, Vol. 18, No. 4, 2006, pp. 461-499.
"Slaves of the Ring: Tolkien's Political Unconscious," Historical Materialism, Vol. 10, No. 4, January 2003, pp. 113-134.
"Nietzsche, the Chinese Worker's Friend," New Left Review, 236, July-August 1999, pp. 3-23.
Essays in Books
"Heideggers entwendeter Brief: Die liberale Volks-gemeinschaft" [Heidegger's Purloined Letter: The Liberal Volksgemeinschaft], in Politische Unschuld? In Sachen Martin Heidegger, ed. Bernhard H.F. Taureck, München: W. Fink Verlag, 2008, pp. 97-127.
"James Bond: a Nietzschean for the Cold War," in James Bond and Philosophy, Chicago: Open Court, 2006.
Other Publications
Abstract of Ph.D. dissertation in Minerva Year-book. March 2008.
"Eyes Wide Shut: Liberalismus, Faschismus und die diskursiven Grenzen der 'Open Society'" [Eyes Wide Shut: Liberalism, Fascism and the Discursive Limits of the 'Open Society'], Marburger Forum, Beiträge zur geistigen Situation der Gegenwart, Jg. 9 (2008), Heft 2.
"On Marxism, Religion, Straws, and Beams: A Response to David S. Pena's Reply," Nature, Society, and Thought, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2007, pp. 113-121.
"Ach, Menschenwürde!," Book review of Bernhard HF Taureck's "Zwischen den Bildern" and "Die Menschenwürde im Zeitalter ihrer Abschaffung" in freitext. Kultur- und Gesellschaftsmagazin, Heft 9, 2007.
Book review of Critical Affinities: Nietzsche and African-American Thought, ed. J. Scott, A. Franklin, in Nature, Society, and Thought,. Vol. 19, No. 3, 2006, pp. 366-378.
"Mister Bond and Dr. Bean." Iton 77, 215 (1998), pp. 36-39 (Hebrew).
Selected Papers at Scientific Conferences
"On the Negation of Abnegation," The Left Forum 2009, Pace University, New York, April 2009.
"On The Socialist Necessity of Re-Appropriating Pleasure," The fifth annual conference of Historical Materialism: "Many Marxisms," The School of Oriental and African Studies, London, November 2008.
"God is Dead: Long Live Nietzsche! Or Marx?," Inaugural North American Conference, "Historical Materialism," York University, Toronto, April 2008.
"The Absent Father: Patriarchy and the Social Order in the Films of Zhang Yimou," Conference on "The Socialist Market Economy and Other Theoretical Issues," Beijing, China, June 2007.
"'The Happiness of the Cow' From a Socialist Perspective," conference on "Moments of Futurity: From Present Conditions to Material(Izing) Horizons," Gainesville, FL, March 2007.
"Der Massenwahn der Faschismustheorie," TU Braunschweig, Germany, January 2007.
"Fascism as Mass Movement: Origins of a Theory," Lecture in the framework of the Lecture Series of the Dept. of History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, December 2004.
"James Bond: a Nietzschean for the Cold War," conference on "The Cultural Politics of Ian Fleming," Bloomington Univ., Indiana, June 2003.
"How to Tame a Bulldog: the Sociopolitical Mission of Nietzschean Heroism," Presenter and co-organizer, "The first international conference for graduate students of the Center for German Studies," at BGU, December 2001.