{"product_id":"state-of-others-elad-lapidot-9780253073266","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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elad Lapidot\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 025307326X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780253073266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Indiana University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/05\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Elad Lapidot","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46795497537791,"sku":"9780253073266","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_98752106-fe9b-4bed-bd78-955de9c9e509.jpg?v=1744947787","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/state-of-others-elad-lapidot-9780253073266","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}