Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Pleading Irreconcilable Differences 1
5. Avowing—The Impossible: “Returns,” Repentance, and Reconciliation 18
6. Dying Warring
7. Mal de Sionisme (Zionist Fever) 45
8. Forget Semitism! 59
9. Beyond Tolerance and Hospitality: Muslims as Strangers and Minor Subjects in Hindu Nationalist and Indian Nationalist Discourse 80
10. Rights, Respect, and the Political: Notes from a Conflict Zone 104
11. Giving Forgiving
12. Responsi/ability, after Derrida 123
13. Contested Forgiveness: Jankélévitch, Levinas, and Derrida at the Colloque des intellectuels juifs 137
14. To Live, by Grace 153
15. Four or Five Words in Derrida 168
16. Surviving Mourning
17. Mourning and Reconciliation 191
18. The Paint er of Postmodern Life 211
19. Return to the Present 227
20. Remembering Living
21. Living—with—Torture—Together 243
22. From Jerusalem to Jerusalem— A Dedication 259
23. How to Live Together Well: Interrogating the Israel/Palestine Conflict 275
24. Notes 293
25. List of Contributors 357
26. Index 361