Authors: Laurence Silberstein
ISBN-13: 9780415913164, ISBN-10: 0415913160
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: June 1999
Edition: 1st Edition
Laurence J. Silberstein is the Philip and Muriel Berman Professor of Jewish Studies at Lehigh University. He is the author of Martin Buber's Social and Religious Philosophy (1989, and has edited several collections.
The struggle for postzionism is a conflict over national memory and the control of cultural and physical space. Laurence J. Silberstein analyzes the phenomenon of postzionism and provides an intervention into this debate.
One of the most important books on Israeli culture...Its documents for the first time in English major shifts in Israeli culture, as well as peripherally in Jewish political culture outside of Israel.
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
Ch. 1 | Mapping Zionism/Zionist Mapping | 15 |
Ch. 2 | Critique of Zionism: Critics from Within | 47 |
Ch. 3 | Critique of Zionism: Critics from Without | 67 |
Ch. 4 | Postzionism: The Academic Debates | 89 |
Ch. 5 | Palestinian Critics and Postzionist Discourse: Anton Shammas and Emile Habiby | 127 |
Ch. 6 | Postzionism, Postmodernism, and Postcolonial Theory: A Radical Postzionist Critique | 165 |
Concluding Reflections | 207 | |
Endnotes | 211 | |
References | 241 | |
Index | 263 |