Dr. Irit Wolfgor

Her doctoral dissertation, Phenomenology of Clarity, supervised by Prof. Ronny Miron, explores the twofold phenomenon of arriving at clarity: a continuous process of gradual clarification and a sudden, unpredictable moment of a discontinuous leap in clarity. Drawing on Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology, her study examines the relationship between these two temporal modes and asks how discontinuity emerges from continuity. The study sheds new light on the dynamics of philosophizing in Husserl’s thought by disclosing the grammar underlying its movement.

Her current research focuses on the thought of the Sefat Emet. At the center of this work is a collaborative research project with Prof. Ronny Miron on the theme of nearness and distance in the Sefat Emet’s homilies. Drawing in part on the phenomenological foundations of her doctoral dissertation, the project examines, from a phenomenological–hermeneutic perspective, how presence and absence, revelation and concealment shape the relations between nearness and distance, and what these relations reveal about the Sefat Emet’s conception of divinity, the world, and the human being.