The Faceless Palestinian
A History of an Error
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11050729 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Oona Eisenstadt, C E Katz, Cheyenne Katz |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 2016 |
| Issue | 174 |
| Pages | 9-32 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Telos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-6514 • E-ISSN: 1940-459X |
| Publisher | Telos Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3817/0316174009 |
| OpenAlex | W2299746708 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
In recent years, a number of books and articles have appeared claiming that Levinas's thought and writing dehumanizes Palestinians, categorizing them as people to whom ethical obligation is not due. In this paper we trace the lineage of this idea and attempt to show that the extreme formulations used by some of Levinas's critics are in error. We begin with a close reading of the interview that is regularly cited in support of the image of the dehumanized Palestinian, an interview published in English in The Levinas Reader under the title “Ethics and Politics.”1 We then take up a short
Art · Dehumanization · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Obligation · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Sociology · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society · Philosophy
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| Citations per year | 1.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |