Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism (New Directions in Critical Theory)

by Judith Butler

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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...Read more
  • ISBN10 0231517955
  • ISBN13 9780231517959
  • Publish Date 24 July 2012 (first published 1 January 2012)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Columbia University Press
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 256
  • Language English