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Continental Philosophy and the Palestinian Question: Beyond the Jew and the Greek

by Zahi Anbra Zalloua
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781474299206
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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  • Pages: 240
  • Original Price: USD 190.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 499 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Political, Middle East / Israel & Palestine, and World / Middle Eastern

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.

Mohaghegh, Jason Bahbak: -

Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh is Assistant Professor of World Literature at New Jersey City University, USA.

Stone, Lucian: - Lucian Stone is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion, The University of North Dakota, USA.

Zalloua, Zahi: - Zahi Zalloua is Professor of French and Interdisciplinary Studies at Whitman College, USA and editor of The Comparatist. His publications include Montaigne and the Ethics of Skepticism, Reading Unruly: Interpretation and its Ethical Demands, and articles and edited volumes on globalization, ethical criticism, and trauma studies.

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