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The malice in good deeds / Alphonso Lingis -- The imperfect : Levinas, Nietzsche, and the autonomous subject / Jill Stauffer -- Nietzsche and Levinas : the impossible relation / Jean-Michel Longneaux -- Ethical ambivalence / Judith Butler -- Thus spoke Zarathustra, thus listened the rabbis : philosophy, education, and the cycle of enlightenment / Claire Elise Katz -- The flesh made word; or, the two origins / Bettina Bergo -- Nietzsche, Levinas, and the meaning of responsibility / Rosalyn Diprose -- Beginning's abyss : on solitude in Nietzsche and Levinas / John Drabinski -- Beyond suffering I have no alibi / David Boothroyd -- Levinas, Spinozism, Nietzsche, and the body / Richard A. Cohen -- Suffering redeemable and irredeemable / John Llewelyn -- Levinas's Gaia scienza / Aïcha Liviana Messina -- Levinas : another ascetic priest? / Silvia Benso -- Apocalypse, eschatology, and the death of God / Brian Schroeder

Invited to answer questions about his relationship to Judaism, Jacques Derrida spoke through Franz Kafka: "As for myself, I could imagine another Abraham."From the experience of a summons that surprises us and prompts the query "Who, me?" Derrida explores the movement between growing up Jewish, "becoming Jewish," and "Jewish being" or existence. His essay "The Other Abraham" appears here in English for the first time. We no longer confront "Judaism" but "judeity," multiple Judaisms and Jewishnesses, manifold ways of being and writing as a Jew--in Derrida's case, as a French-speaking Algerian deprived of, then restored to French nationality in the 1940s. What is it to be a Jew and a philosopher? How has the notion of "Jewish identity" been written into and across Jewish literature, Jewish thought, and Jewish languages? Here distinguished scholars address these questions, contrasting Derrida's thought with philosophical predecessors such as Rosenzweig, Levinas, Celan, and Scholem, and tracing confluences between deconstruction and Kabbalah. Derrida's relationship to the universalist aspirations in contemporary theology is also discussed, and his late autobiographical writings are evaluated. This multifaceted volume aims to open the question of Jewishness, above all, to hold it open as a question, though not one of practical or theoretical identity. As much a contestation of identity as a profound reflection on what it means today to seek, elude, and finally to wrestle with the significance of "being-jew," Judeities invites us to revisit the human condition in the twenty-first century

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: A Focus on White Privilege Through Personal Narratives -- Part 1 Approaching White Privilege -- 1 Deprivileging Philosophy -- 2 White Privilege and the Problem with Affi rmative Action -- 3 Revisioning "White Privilege" -- Part 2 The Images and Rhetoric of White Privilege -- 4 The Very Image of Privilege: Film Creation of White Transcendentals in Vienna and Hollywood -- 5 Painting and Negotiating Colors -- 6 I Was an Honorary White Man: Reflections on Space, Place, and Origin -- Part 3 Troubling Privilege -- 7 Whiteness as Insidious: On the Embedded and Opaque White Racist Self -- 8 White Privilege: The Luxury of Undivided Attention -- 9 The Costs of Privilege and Dividends of Privilege Awareness: The Social Psychology of Confronting Inequality -- 10 Unpacking the Imperialist Knapsack: White Privilege and Imperialism in Obama's America -- Part 4 Other Perspectives on White and Western Privilege -- 11 Whiteness and Africana Political Economy -- 12 The Great White North: Failing Muslim Canadians, Failing Us All -- 13 Rethinking Ethical Feminism Through uBuntu -- 14 The Afrocentrist Critique of Eurocentrism: The Decolonization of Knowledge -- List of Contributors -- Index

Subjects and Simulations presents essays focused on suffering and sublimity, representation and subjectivity, and the relation of truth and appearance through engagement with the legacies of Jean Baudrillard and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe.