David Kishik’s scientific contributions

... Both quotations embody the tensionality (between hope and desperation) so characteristic of his thinking-a form of ethico-political thought that reflects our inherently conflicted relationship to life and to the world (Ruti 2014). Kishik's (2012) characterization of Agamben's thinking as thoughtful lightness (a playful thinking in the interval) captures something profoundly educational in that it does not fill us and our students with false or empty hope-a form of cruel optimism (Berlant 2011). Instead, it invites an encounter with a world full of challenging ethico-political questions about how we might coexist (i.e., somewhere between desperation and hope, between life and death) and how we might, even temporarily, imagine living somewhere between sacred law and profane responses; between solidifying myths and liquefying play; and between hot events, such as the pandemic, and cold structures, such as stay-at-home orders. ...

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Toward a “thoughtful lightness”: Education in viral times