Summary
French-Jewish philosopher whose ‘face-to-face encounter’ with the absolutely Other Stateless Citizenship (2013) sets against the Zionist incorporation regime at the close of Chapter 6 (Stateless Citizenship (2013), PDF p.232).
Details
- In Levinas’s encounter, the individual Subject is exposed to the absolutely Other as she/he is, awakening the Subject’s responsibility to the Other, and the Subject is thereby born as an ethical being; Molavi holds that the Zionist regime does the exact reverse, forming the Jewish subject against and through rejection of the Palestinian-Arab Other and incorporating members not as Others but as if they were Jews (PDF p.232).
- Footnote 20 records that for Levinas the Self and the Other are absolutely separate and exterior to one another, a separation that cannot be consolidated into interiority (Levinas 2011, 28, as cited, PDF p.232).