{"product_id":"state-of-others-levinas-and-decolonial-israel-9780253073273","title":"State of Others: Levinas and Decolonial Israel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eState of Others: Levinas and Decolonial Israel\u003c\/i\u003e explores the relations between post-Holocaust Jewish thought and postcolonial thought through the work of Emmanuel Levinas. In the last decade, thinkers have criticized Levinas for his Eurocentrism; however, author Elad Lapidot argues that Levinas anticipated this critique and, from the 1960s onward, began setting the foundations for decolonial Jewish thought-and for decolonial Zionism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eState of Others\u003c\/i\u003e offers an innovative analysis of Levinas's intellectual project as articulated around a turn in the year 1968. This turn relates to the relationship between Judaism and Western civilization. Prior to 1968, Levinas considered the historical Jewish collective, Israel, as the avant-garde of Western humanism. After 1968, with the rise of decolonial discourse, Levinas's concept of Israel shifts roles and becomes the paradigmatic victim of Western imperialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eState of Others\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how Levinas simultaneously developed his dual narratives-before and after the pivotal year of 1968-across his philosophical and Jewish writings, with a special emphasis on the Talmudic Readings. It presents for the first time a cohesive overview of Levinas's writings, both early and late, as interconnected components of a singular intellectual endeavor. The ethical principles concerning the other, as articulated by Levinas, are conceptually linked to his reflections on the State of Israel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eElad Lapidot is Professor of Hebraic Studies at the University of Lille. He is author of \u003ci\u003eJews Out of the Question: A Critique of Anti-Anti-Semitism.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51635488325906,"sku":"9780253073273","price":65.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a84e8532-fef1-4276-b0f3-ec527a020eb9.jpg?v=1759238968","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/state-of-others-levinas-and-decolonial-israel-9780253073273","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}