Ethics Without Normativity and Politics without Historicity: On Judith Butler’s Parting ways. Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism

@article{Butler2018EthicsWN,
  title={Ethics Without Normativity and Politics without Historicity: On Judith Butler’s Parting ways. Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism},
  author={Judith Butler},
  journal={Exile, Statelessness, and Migration},
  year={2018}
}
  • J. Butler
  • Published 24 July 2012
  • Philosophy
  • Exile, Statelessness, and Migration
AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Self-Departure1: Impossible2. Unable to Kill: Levinas Contra Levinas3. Walter Benjamin and the Critique of Violence4. Flashing Up: Benjamin's Messianic Politics5. Is Judaism Zionism? Or6. Quandaries of the Plural: Cohabitation and Sovereignty in Arendt7. Primo Levi for the Present8. "What Shall We Do Without Exile?": Said and Darwish Address the FutureNotesIndex 
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