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Zusatztext In the tradition of Césaire and Fanon! Zahi Zalloua provides penetrating insight into the heart of the humanist project! revealing a profound crisis around the haunting figure of the Palestinian. Capacious and breathtaking! Zalloua's book traces this deafening silence. The last sky is upon us and Zahi Zalloua's masterful work is as vital as it is urgent Informationen zum Autor Zahi Zalloua is Cushing Eells Professor of Philosophy and Literature and a Professor of Indigeneity, Race, and Ethnicity Studies at Whitman College and Editor of The Comparatist . His most recent work includes Solidarity and the Palestinian Cause: Indigeneity, Blackness, and the Promise of Universality (2023), Being Posthuman: Ontologies of the Future (2021), Žižek on Race: Toward an Anti- Racist Future (2020), Theory’s Autoimmunity: Skepticism, Literature, and Philosophy (2018), and Continental Philosophy and the Palestinian Question: Beyond the Jew and the Greek (2017).A politically lively text exploring the viability of an ethics and politics of otherness grounded in the figure of the Jew and the other of the Jew: the Palestinian. Zusammenfassung From Sartre to Levinas, continental philosophers have looked to the example of the Jew as the paradigmatic object of and model for ethical inquiry. Levinas, for example, powerfully dedicates his 1974 book Otherwise than Being to the victims of the Holocaust, and turns attention to the state of philosophy after Auschwitz. Such an ethics radically challenges prior notions of autonomy and comprehension—two key ideas for traditional ethical theory and, more generally, the Greek tradition. It seeks to respect the opacity of the other and avoid the dangers of hermeneutic violence. But how does such an ethics of the other translate into real, everyday life? What is at stake in thinking the other as Jew? Is the alterity of the Jew simply a counter to Greek universalism? Is a rhetoric of exceptionalism, with its unavoidable ontological residue, at odds with shifting political realities? Within this paradigm, what then becomes of the Arab or Muslim, the other of the Jew, the other of the other, so to speak? This line of ethical thought—in its desire to bear witness to past suffering and come to terms with subjectivity after Auschwitz—arguably brackets from analysis present operations of power. Would, then, a more sensitive historical approach expose the Palestinian as the other of the Israeli? Here, Zahi Zalloua offers a challenging intervention into how we configure the contemporary. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: From the Jewish Question to the Palestinian Question 1. Levinas and Trauma: The Rhetoric of the Timeless Victim 2. The Gaza Wars: Palestinians as Homines Sacri 3. “A People Like Any Other People”: Palestinians as Example 4. The Exilic Palestinian: Difference Otherwise than Being 5. The Nation Which Is Not One, or Israel’s Autoimmunity Epilogue: Becoming Palestinian Notes Bibliography Index ...
