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

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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