Abstract
My talk reflects on the relations between post-Holocaust Jewish thought and decolonial thought through the work of French-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. Recently thinkers criticized Levinas for his Eurocentrism. My talk argues that Levinas anticipated this critique and from the 1960s on sought to develop the foundations for decolonial Jewish thought – and for decolonial Zionism. To demonstrate this claim, my talk offers an innovative presentation of Levinas’s entire intellectual project as articulated around a fundamental turn between the period prior to 1968 and the post-68 period. The turn relates to Levinas’s understanding of the relationship between Judaism and Western civilization.
Redner
Elad Lapidot ist Professor für Jüdische Studien an der Universität Lille. Im Oktober 2025 ist er auf Einladung von Professor Christian Wiese und dem Frankfurter Forschungsverbund »Dynamiken des Religiösen« Fellow am Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.
Teilnahme
Geschlossene Veranstaltung. Kontakt: Beate Sutterlüty; E-Mail: b.sutterluety@forschungskolleg-humanwissenschaften.de