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Monthly Archives: May 2007

Reviews Of Interest

From Judith Butler’s review of Hannah Arendt’s The Jewish Writings (J. Kohn, ed): In 1948, after the UN had sanctioned the state of Israel, Arendt predicted that ‘even if the Jews were to win the war [of independence], its end would find the . . . achievements of Zionism in Palestine destroyed . . . [...]

Platonic, almost!

A recent discussion at I Cite on Agamben has ended with rather nasty words: I’ve been accused being, “Platonic, almost”! (See here, here and here for the rest of the discussion.) There are two issues at hand in our exchange: one is a meta-theoretical question and the other is a question of political theory. The [...]