Key Passages Talk: No Occupation: Derrida on Palestine
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesTaking its point of departure from a thread of references to Palestine in Derrida’s writings, from Glas to his last texts, this lecture seeks to demonstrate that these key passages can be a resource for us as we navigate our way through the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It traces Derrida’s complicated relation to his own Jewishness and argues that it is this complexity that enables him to guide us through the thicket of the recent war ...
