Yonatan Harel

I am a graduate of the PPE program (Philosophy, Political Science, and Economics) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where I also completed my M.A in Philosophy, Magna Cum Laude, and where I am a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Art-History as of now. My main interest is Aesthetics, a topic which I began pursuing whilst studying Architecture, for a year, at 'Bezalel – High Academy for Arts & Design, Jerusalem', prior to my B.A studies. I handled this topic in a wide and diverse spectrum of references, from philosophical and political theories to Plastic Arts, Russian Literature, computer vision, and AI-based arts algorithms.

My M.A thesis analyzed Kant's 'Critique of Judgment', under the supervision of Dr. Tatiana Karachentseva, where I claimed that Kant’s term of Sensus Communis may explain social communication as a symbol-based language that is immersed in the visual sphere.

 

Ph.D. dissertation: ‘Painted Communities Comparative Consideration of Erwin Panofsky's Iconology’

My Ph.D. research deals with Erwin Panofsky’s Iconology. I am trying to demonstrate that this methodology grounded a positivist approach to Aesthetics, thus secularizing its practice, which was, previously, bound almost completely to philosophy. While elaborating on the conceptual core of Iconology, I turn to Panofsky’s critique of Martin Heidegger and go on to demonstrate that this methodology may explain and enhance our knowledge of Benedict Anderson’s notion of Imagined Communities.

 

Yonatan Harel
Doctoral Fellow 2022-2023
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