Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism

by Judith Butler

Book Overview

Judith Butler follows Edward Said's late suggestion that through a consideration of Palestinian dispossession in relation to Jewish diasporic traditions a new ethos can be forged for a one-state solution. Butler engages Jewish philosophical positions to articulate a critique of political Zionism and its practices of illegitimate state violence, nationalism, and state-sponsored racism. At the same time, she moves beyond communitarian frameworks,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231146116
• ISBN13: 9780231146111
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"