J. LeBlanc

Edward Said on the Prospects of Peace in Palestine and Israel

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Produktbeschreibung

John Randolph LeBlanc examines the political oeuvre of critic and activist Edward Said and finds that Said preferred "reconciliation" to segregation in Palestine/Israel. LeBlanc argues that Said's criticism speaks to the importance of negotiating the troubling, proximate, and unsettling presence of our most perplexing others.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-00846-6
• 2013
• Seitenzahl: 195
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 350g
• ISBN-13: 9781137008466
• ISBN-10: 1137008466
• Artikelnr.: 34966585

Autorenporträt

John Randolph LeBlanc is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at Tyler, USA, where he teaches political philosophy and public law. He is author of Ethics and Creativity in the Political Thought of Simone Weil and Albert Camus (2004) and co-author, with Carolyn M. Jones Medine, of Ancient and Modern Religion and Politics: Negotiating Transitive Spaces and Hybrid Identities (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Democratic Aspirations, Democratic Ambiguities 2. Unsettling Attachments and Unsettled Places 3. Separation and the 'Exile as Potentate' 4. The 'Exile as Traveler': Exodus and Reconciliation 5. Articulating Presence, Narrating Detachment

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