Parting Ways

Informationen zum Autor Judith Butler Klappentext Revisiting Edward Said's late proposals for a one-state solution, Butler has come to a startling suggestion: Jewish ethics not only demand a critique of Zionism, but must transcend its exclusive Jewishness in order to realize the ethical and political ideals of living together in radical democracy. Zusammenfassung Revisiting Edward Said's late proposals for a one-state solution! Butler has come to a startling suggestion: Jewish ethics not only demand a critique of Zionism! but must transcend its exclusive Jewishness in order to realize the ethical and political ideals of living together in radical democracy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Self-Departure 1: Impossible 2. Unable to Kill: Levinas Contra Levinas 3. Walter Benjamin and the Critique of Violence 4. Flashing Up: Benjamin's Messianic Politics 5. Is Judaism Zionism? Or 6. Quandaries of the Plural: Cohabitation and Sovereignty in Arendt 7. Primo Levi for the Present 8. "What Shall We Do Without Exile?": Said and Darwish Address the Future Notes Index

Product details

• Authors: Butler, Judith Butler
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2012
• EAN: 9780231146104
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14610-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Series: New Directions in Critical Theory; New Directions in Critical The; New Directions in Critical Theory; New Directions in Critical The
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Israel, Nationalism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, Jewish Studies, Palestine, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, philosophy; Judaism