Zahi Zalloua: 2 books
Reading Unruly
Interpretation and Its Ethical Demands
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Drawing on literary theory and canonical French literature, Reading Unruly examines unruliness as both an aesthetic category and a mode of reading conceived as ethical response. Zahi Zalloua argues that when faced with an unruly work of art, readers confront an ethical double bind, hesitating then...
Continental Philosophy and the Palestinian Question
Beyond the Jew and the Greek
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
From Sartre to Levinas, continental philosophers have looked to the example of the Jew as the paradigmatic object of and model for ethical inquiry. Levinas, for example, powerfully dedicates his 1974 book Otherwise than Being to the victims of the Holocaust, and turns attention to the state of philosophy...