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Itay Snir

Itay Snir is a senior lecturer at the Yezre’el Valley Academic College, Israel, and co-editor of Mafte’akh: A Lexical Journal for Political Thought. His research areas are political theory and philosophy and education. He is currently working on the concept of schooling and the relations between children and politics. His book Education and Thinking in Continental Philosophy: Thinking against the Current in Adorno, Arendt, Deleuze, Derrida and Rancière was published by Springer in 2020.

Essays

<strong>School Education and Divine Violence</strong>

“Thinking about school education through Walter Benjamin’s concept of divine violence, we argue that schools must be defended not despite but precisely because of the violence they encompass.”