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(2009) Postcolonial philosophy of religion, Dordrecht, Springer.
This essay voices a de-colonial reading of peripheral Judaism. The de-colonial discourse reconfigures the racial, political, and epistemological alliances that were put in place after the Holocaust. By departing from the limitations of one of the most influential post-1945 European Jewish intellectuals, Emmanuel Levinas, I show the need to return to a narrative of Jewish thought that neither reduces racial suffering exclusively to the Jewish case, nor tries to incorporate Judaism within the Western canon. A de-colonial reading shows that through the historical interrelation, hybridization, and common social struggle with, or within, other others, Judaism can complement other contemporary proposals and confront the ethical and political dilemmas of the post-1945 American Jewish narrative.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2538-8_14
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Slabodsky, S. E. (2009)., De-colonial Jewish thought and the Americas, in P. Bilimoria & A. B. Irvine (eds.), Postcolonial philosophy of religion, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 251-272.
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