Language:
French
Year of publication:
2008
Titel der Quelle:
Controverses; revue d'idees
Angaben zur Quelle:
8 (2008) 68-77
Keywords:
Butler, Judith,
;
Anti-Zionism
;
Jews Identity
Abstract:
Pp. 74-77 discuss the views of the anti-Zionist, Jewish American gender theorist Judith Butler on Judaism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She redefines Jewishness on the basis of Hannah Arendt's analysis of the paradoxes of the nation state and argues that the meaning of Jewishness today is to be synonymous with the absence of a national framework. Jewish identity, which lacks all recognition, provides an opportunity both for political and ethical emancipation. Political emancipation comes about through opposition to the acts of "hatred" committed by the Jewish state. As victims of extermination turned perpetrators, the Israelis are best suited to break the process of victimization and bring about world peace. Butler argues that non-violence has become possible thanks to the role mourning has come to play in the world post-9/11. Mourning reveals our degree of interdependence, against which security measures are impotent.
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