Sinai Rusinek

Sinai Rusinek is PhD. Candidate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.  Her research deals with the history of the concept of Critique and the Critic since its first appearances in ancient Greece and Rome, to its retrieval in Early Modern times. Trained in philosophy, in previous research projects she examined the concept of Critique analytically, with a view to its logical workings and legitimacy, as it is applied in Sigmund Freud's critique of religion, Nietzsche's critique of morality and in Foucault's archaeological and genealogical projects. The current research implements semantic and contextual history to trace the earlier transmutations of the concept and understand its use and power, as well as look into the phenomena of conceptual change in general.

Sinai Rusinek is member of the Concepta board Since 2008, Project coordinator at the Van Leer Jerusalem institute for the Summer School for the History of Concepts, and leading a research and study group at the Van Leer Institute which deals with theory and methodology of conceptual history.

For the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute projects, see: http://www.vanleer.org.il/eng/content.asp?id=294