This volume in the Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy series provides a political and philosophical critique of Zionism.
While other nationalisms seem to have adapted to twenty-first century realities and shifting notions of state and nation, Zionism has largely remained tethered to a nineteenth century mentality, including the glorification of the state as the only means of expressing the spirit of the people. These essays, contributed by eminent international thinkers including Slavoj Zizek, Luce Irigaray, Judith Butler, Gianni Vattimo, Walter Mignolo, Marc Ellis, and others, deconstruct the political-metaphysical myths that are the framework for the existence of Israel. Collectively, they offer a multifaceted critique of the metaphysical, theological, and onto-political grounds of the Zionist project and the economic, geopolitical, and cultural outcomes of these foundations.
A significant contribution to the debates surrounding the state of Israel today, this groundbreaking work will appeal to anyone interested in political theory, philosophy, Jewish thought, and the Middle East conflict.
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Introduction: “If not now, when?”
Gianni Vattimo & Michael Marder
Chapter 1: Anti-Semitism and Its Transformations
Slavoj Žižek
Chapter 2: How to Become an Anti-Zionist
Gianni Vattimo
Chapter 3: Is Judaism Zionism? Or, Arendt and the Critique of the Nation-State
Judith Butler
Chapter 4: Decolonizing the Nation-State: Zionism in the Colonial Horizon of Modernity
Walter Mignolo
Chapter 5: Karl Marx and Hannah Arendt on the Jewish Question: Political Theology as a Critique
Artemy Magun
Chapter 6: Notes on the Prophetic Instability of Zionism
Marc H. Ellis
Chapter 7: The Spirit of Zionism: Derrida, Ruah, and the Purloined Birthright
Christopher Wise
Chapter 8: Rex, or the Negation of Wandering
Ranjana Khanna
Chapter 9: The Hermeneutical Stance: Being Discharged at the Margins of Political Zionism
Santiago Zabala
Chapter 10: The Zionist Synecdoche
Michael Marder
Chapter 11: Sharing Humanity: Towards Peaceful Coexistence in Difference
Luce Irigaray
Index
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Deconstructing Zionism is by turn spectacular, compelling, difficult and tangential. For a practical-minded reader of politics, the contributions discussed here count amongst the best.
This Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy volume offers a critique of the foundations of the Zionist project and its culmination in the state of Israel.
Integrates the theory and practice of opposing state violence and oppressive collective identity formation
Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy encourages a sustained dialogue between the most important intellectual currents in recent European philosophy--including phenomenology, deconstruction, hermeneutics--and key political theories and concepts, both classical and modern. In doing so, it not only sheds new light on today's shifting political realities but also explores the previously neglected consequences of the two disciplines.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781441105943
Publisert
2014-01-16
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic USA
Vekt
325 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
208