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Title Living together : Jacques Derrida's communities of violence and peace / edited by Elisabeth Weber
Edition First edition
Published New York : Fordham University Press, 2013
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Description 1 online resource (x, 372 pages)
Contents Introduction : leading irreconcilable differences / Elisabeth Weber -- Avowing- the impossible : "Returns," repentance, and reconciliation / Jacques Derrida, translated from the French by Gil Anidjar -- Mal de Sionisme (Zionist Fever) / Gil Anidjar -- Forget semitism! / Joseph A. Massad -- Beyond tolerance and hospitality : Muslims as strangers and minor subjects in Hindu nationalist and Indian nationalist discourse / Priya Kumar -- Rights, respect, and the political : notes from a conflict zone / Raef Zreik -- Responsi/ability, after Derrida / Ellen T. Armour -- Contested forgiveness : Jankelevitch, Levinas, and Derrida at the Colloque des intellectuels juifs / Dana Hollander -- To live, by grace / William Robert -- Four or five words in Derrida / Kevin Hart -- Mourning and reconciliation / Marc Nichanian, translated from the French by Alison Bjerke -- The painter of postmodern life / Sherene Seikaly -- Living-with-torture-together / Elisabeth Weber -- From Jerusalem to Jerusalem- a dedication / Michal Govrin, translated from the Hebrew by Atar Hadari -- How to live together well : interrogating the Israel/Palestine conflict / Richard Falk
Summary For Jacques Derrida, the notions and experiences of 'community, ' 'living, ' and 'together' never ceased to harbour radical, in fact infinite interrogations. 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' around which the collection is gathered
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Derrida, Jacques -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Derrida, Jacques
Derrida, Jacques fast
Subject Violence.
Peace.
violence.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom.
Peace
Violence
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Weber, Elisabeth, 1959- editor.
ISBN 9780823252626
0823252620
9780823250646
0823250644
0823249921
9780823249923