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Continental Philosophy and the Palestinian Question - Beyond the Jew and the Greek (Hardcover)
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Continental Philosophy and the Palestinian Question - Beyond the Jew and the Greek (Hardcover)
Series: Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought
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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.
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