Speakers: Judith Butler, Jacqueline Rose

Judith Butler’s Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism recovers Jewish philosophical traditions to reinvigorate the discussion of co-habitation in Israel and Palestine, drawing on a tradition of principled non-violence. Using the work of Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Martin Buber and Primo Levi, amongst others, within a contemporary context, a new political ethic is articulated.

Butler discussed with Jacqueline Rose the philosophical and political quandaries attending the formation of the state of Israel. They consider whether it is time to consider “binationalism”, and what that might mean within a solution to the conflict.