Decolonial Judaism: Triumphal Failures of Barbaric Thinking explores the relationship among geopolitics, religion, and social theory. It argues that during the postcolonial and post-Holocaust era, Jewish thinkers in different parts of the world were influenced by Global South thought and mobilized this rich set of intellectual resources to confront the assimilation of normative Judaism by various incipient neo-colonial powers. By tracing the historical and conceptual lineage of this overlooked conversation, this book explores not only its epistemological opportunities, but also the internal contradictions that led to its ultimate unraveling, especially in the post-9/11 world.

Autorentext

Santiago Slabodsky is The Florence and Robert Kaufmann Chair in Jewish Studies and Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion at Hofstra University, USA. He has been a visiting professor at institutions in Spain, Costa Rica, the Netherlands, Macedonia, Argentina, Canada, and the United States and has published widely in Jewish thought and culture, sociology of knowledge, global south social movements, liberation theology, and decolonial theory.

Zusammenfassung

Decolonial Judaism: Triumphal Failures of Barbaric Thinking explores the relationship among geopolitics, religion, and social theory. It argues that during the postcolonial and post-Holocaust era, Jewish thinkers in different parts of the world were influenced by Global South thought and mobilized this rich set of intellectual resources to confront the assimilation of normative Judaism by various incipient neo-colonial powers. By tracing the historical and conceptual lineage of this overlooked conversation, this book explores not only its epistemological opportunities, but also the internal contradictions that led to its ultimate unraveling, especially in the post-9/11 world.

Inhalt
Introduction: The Past Was Worse (and We Miss It) 1. Jewish Thought, Postcolonialism, and Decoloniality: The Geo-Politics of a Barbaric Encounter 2. The Narrative of Barbarism: Western Designs for a Globalized North 3. Negative Barbarism: Marxist Counter-Narrative in the Provincial North 4. Transitional Barbarism: Levinas's Counter-Narrative and the Global South 5. Positive Barbarism: Memmi's Counter-Narrative in a Southern Network 6. Barbaric Paradoxes: Zionism from the Standpoint of the Borderlands 7. After 9/11: New Barbarism and the Legacies in the Global South Epilogue: Duped by Jewish Suffering (Analectical Interjections)