Parting ways Jewishness and the critique of Zionism
Parting ways: Jewishness and the critique of Zionism

Judith Butler follows Edward Said's late suggestion that through a consideration of Palestinian dispossession in relation to Jewish diasporic traditions a new ethos can be forged for a one-state solution. Butler engages Jewish philosophical positions to articulate a critique of political Zionis...

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1. Verfasser: Butler, Judith 1956- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Columbia University Press 2012
Schriftenreihe:New Directions in Critical Theory
Schlagworte:
Antizionismus
Politik
Jüdische Ethik
Gewalt
Philosophie
Zionismus
Israel
Zionism > Philosophy
Jewish ethics
Political violence > Israel
Zusammenfassung:Judith Butler follows Edward Said's late suggestion that through a consideration of Palestinian dispossession in relation to Jewish diasporic traditions a new ethos can be forged for a one-state solution. Butler engages Jewish philosophical positions to articulate a critique of political Zionism and its practices of illegitimate state violence, nationalism, and state-sponsored racism. At the same time, she moves beyond communitarian frameworks, including Jewish ones, that fail to arrive at a radical democratic notion of political cohabitation. Butler engages thinkers such as Edward Said, Emmanuel Levinas, Hannah Arendt, Primo Levi, Martin Buber, Walter Benjamin, and Mahmoud Darwish as she articulates a new political ethic. In her view, it is as important to dispute Israel's claim to represent the Jewish people as it is to show that a narrowly Jewish framework cannot suffice as a basis for an ultimate critique of Zionism. She promotes an ethical position in which the obligations of cohabitation do not derive from cultural sameness but from the unchosen character of social plurality. Recovering the arguments of Jewish thinkers who offered criticisms of Zionism or whose work could be used for such a purpose, Butler disputes the specific charge of anti-Semitic self-hatred often leveled against Jewish critiques of Israel. Her political ethic relies on a vision of cohabitation that thinks anew about binationalism and exposes the limits of a communitarian framework to overcome the colonial legacy of Zionism. Her own engagements with Edward Said and Mahmoud Darwish form an important point of departure and conclusion for her engagement with some key forms of thought derived in part from Jewish resources, but always in relation to the non-Jew. Butler considers the rights of the dispossessed, the necessity of plural cohabitation, and the dangers of
Introduction: Self-Departure, Exile, and the Critique of Zionism -- 1. Impossible, Necessary Talk: Said, Levinas, and the Ethical Demand -- 2. Unable to Kill: Levinas Contra Levinas -- 3. Walter Benjamin and the Critique of Violence -- 4. Flushing Up -- 5. Is Judaism Zionism? Or, Arendt and the Critique of the Nation-State -- 6. Qunadaries 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.
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Beschreibung:1 online resource (264 pages)
ISBN:9780231517959

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