TALK: Jackals and Arabs (Once More: The German-Jewish Dialogue)
Mosher Alumni Hall Mosher Alumni House, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesThe lecture takes its point of departure in Maurice Blanchot’s claim that Kafka initiates a new form of dialogue. By reinserting Kafka in the debates (or dialogues) on the German-Jewish dialogue and the way in which that dialogue was always already framing, rehearsing and announcing the Arab-Jewish dialogue, Anidjar argues for the significance of form — and what it entails — in and toward the Arab-Jewish dialogue. Gil Anidjar teaches in the departments of Religion and of Middle Eastern, South ...
