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Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature and the codirector of the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale University and was recently awarded the Andrew Mellon Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement in the Humanities. Her many books include The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere (with Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, and Cornel West); Who Sings the Nation-State?: Language, Politics, Belonging (with Gayatri Spivak); and Is Critique Secular? (with Talal Asad, Saba Mahmood, and Wendy Brown).

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Butler considers the rights of the dispossessed, the necessity of plural cohabitation, and the dangers of arbitrary state violence, showing how they can be extended to a critique of Zionism, even when that is not their explicit aim. She revisits and affirms Edward Said s late proposals for a one-state solution within the ethos of binationalism. Butler s startling suggestion: Jewish ethics not only demand a critique of Zionism, but must transcend its exclusive Jewishness in order to realize the ethical and political ideals of living together in radical democracy.

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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Self-Departure
1: Impossible

2. Unable to Kill: Levinas Contra Levinas
3. Walter Benjamin and the Critique of Violence
4. Flashing Up: Benjamin's Messianic Politics
5. Is Judaism Zionism? Or
6. Quandaries of the Plural: Cohabitation and Sovereignty in Arendt
7. Primo Levi for the Present
8. "What Shall We Do Without Exile?": Said and Darwish Address the Future
   Notes
   Index