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Living Together : Jacques Derrida's Communities of Violence and Peace.
Title:
Living Together : Jacques Derrida's Communities of Violence and Peace.
Author:
Weber, Elisabeth.
ISBN:
9780823250646
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (382 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Pleading Irreconcilable Differences -- Avowing-The Impossible: "Returns," Repentance, and Reconciliation -- Dying Warring -- Mal de Sionisme (Zionist Fever) -- Forget Semitism! -- Beyond Tolerance and Hospitality: Muslims as Strangers and Minor Subjects in Hindu Nationalist and Indian Nationalist Discourse -- Rights, Respect, and the Po liti cal: Notes from a Confl ict Zone -- Giving Forgiving -- Responsi/ability, after Derrida -- Contested Forgiveness: Jankélévitch, Levinas, and Derrida at the Colloque des intellectuels juifs -- To Live, by Grace -- Four or Five Words in Derrida -- Surviving Mourning -- Mourning and Reconciliation -- The Painter of Postmodern Life -- Return to the Present -- Remembering Living -- Living-with-Torture-Together -- From Jerusalem to Jerusalem- A Dedication -- How to Live Together Well: Interrogating the Israel/Palestine Conflict -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
In this volume, the paradoxes, impossibilities, and singular chances that haunt the necessity of "living together" are evoked in Derrida's essay "Avowing--The Impossible: 'Returns,' Repentance, and Reconciliation," around which the collection is gathered. Written by scholars in literary criticism, philosophy, legal studies, religious studies, Middle Eastern studies, and sociology, working in North America, Europe, and the Middle East, the essays in this volume tackle issues such as the responsibilities and fragility of democracy, the pitfalls of decreed reconciliation, the relegitimization of torture in the "war on terror," the connections between Orientalism, Semitism, and anti-Semitism, the delocalizing dynamics of globalization, crimes against humanity, nationalism, and politics as the art not of the possible but of the impossible.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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