Living Together: Jacques Derrida's Communities of Violence and Peace

Published by Fordham University Press 2013

Living Together

Jacques Derrida's Communities of Violence and Peace

Edited by: Elisabeth Weber

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823292080

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For Jacques Derrida, the notions and experiences of “community,” “living,” and “together” never ceased to harbor radical, in fact infinite interrogations. The often anguished question of how to “live together” moved Derrida throughout his oeuvre, animating his sustained reflections on hospitality, friendship, responsibility, justice, forgiveness, and mourning, as well as his interventions as an outspoken critic of South Africa’s apartheid, the Israel/Palestine conflict, the bloody civil war in his native Algeria, human rights abuses, French immigration laws, the death penalty, and the “war on terror.” “Live together,” Derrida wrote, “one must . . . one cannot not ‘live together,’ even if one does not know how or with whom.” 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 re-legitimization 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. The volume includes analyses of current controversies and struggles. Here, Derrida is here read in and with regard to areas of intense political conflict—in particular, those that oppose Israelis and Palestinians, Hindus and Muslims, victims and perpetrators of South African apartheid, Turks and Armenians. The necessity of an infinitely patient reflection goes hand in hand with the obligation of justice as that which must not wait. It is in the spirit of such urgency, of a responsibility that cannot be postponed, that the essays in this volume engage with Derrida’s thinking on “living together.”

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: Pleading Irreconcilable Differences Elisabeth Weber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Avowing—The Impossible: “Returns,” Repentance, and Reconciliation Jacques Derrida Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
Dying Warring
Mal de Sionisme (Zionist Fever) Gil Anidjar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Forget Semitism! Joseph A. Massad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Beyond Tolerance and Hospitality: Muslims as Strangers and Minor Subjects in Hindu Nationalist and Indian Nationalist Discourse Priya Kumar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
Rights, Respect, and the Political: Notes from a Conflict Zone Raef Zreik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
Giving Forgiving
Responsi/ability, after Derrida Ellen T. Armour Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Contested Forgiveness: Jankélévitch, Levinas, and Derrida at the Colloque des intellectuels juifs Dana Hollander Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
To Live, by Grace William Robert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Four or Five Words in Derrida Kevin Hart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
Surviving Mourning
Mourning and Reconciliation Marc Nichanian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
The Paint er of Postmodern Life Michal Ben-Naftali Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Return to the Present Sherene Seikaly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Remembering Living
Living—with—Torture—Together Elisabeth Weber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
From Jerusalem to Jerusalem— A Dedication Michal Govrin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
How to Live Together Well: Interrogating the Israel/Palestine Conflict Richard Falk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	357
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361

Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
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Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9780823292080