Detail Radicals: A Symposium on Bonnie Honig's Shell-Shocked: Feminist Criticism After Trump

Abstract

There is something almost mean about the forensic, which seeks to wrest without charity meaning from every letter, citation, and gesture (...) It is counterbalanced by the fabulative which is the more generous in spirit. But this describes not just feminist criticism but also practices of rabbinical interpretation. Indeed, I think of the combination of the two as a Jewish combination, in a way a method of political theology... Bonnie Honig, “Forensics and Fabulation: Anti-Shock Politics and its Judaic Inspirations”