State of Others: Levinas and Decolonial Israel

by Elad Lapidot

State of Others: Levinas and Decolonial Israel explores the relations between post-Holocaust Jewish thought and postcolonial thought through the work of Emmanuel Levinas. In the last decade, thinkers have criticized Levinas for his Eurocentrism; however, author Elad Lapidot argues that Levinas anticipated this critique and, from the 1960s onward, began setting the foundations for decolonial Jewish thought--and for decolonial Zionism.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253073278
• ISBN13: 9780253073273
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 320 Pages