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Call for Publications Theme: Parting Ways with the Nation-State, Toward the Exilic State Publication: The European Legacy Date: Special Issue Deadline: 1.2.2018 __________________________________________________ We invite submissions for a special issue of The European Legacy dedicated to the themes, thinkers, and central concerns of Judith Butler’s Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism (2012). In particular, we are interested in articles that take up Butler’s call to rethink the nation-state, and which consider how her discussion of cohabitation, Jewishness, relationality, translation, and diasporic/exilic thinking could be brought to bear in envisaging alternative forms of political belonging. We are interested likewise in articles that focus on the authors Butler considers in Parting Ways — Hannah Arendt, Edward W. Said, Mahmoud Darwish, Emmanuel Levinas, Walter Benjamin, Primo Levi, and Martin Buber — as well as other thinkers she could have included in her critique of the nation-state, her discussion of Israel/Palestine, or as part of the alternative exilic/diasporic current of Jewish ethics. While the focus of Butler’s book is on Israel/Palestine, we are interested equally in how relevant her analysis is for a critique of the nation-state more broadly conceived, in both Europe and beyond. Above all, we are interested in the lessons that can be drawn from Butler’s critique of the nation-state. How, for instance, could Butler’s account inform a politics of resistance to the nation-state? How is cohabitation linked to translation? Is Butler’s account of cohabitation limited to a textual methodology? What is the power and potential of diasporic thinking? Do the diasporic and exilic risk becoming a privileged cultural site or perspective? Finally, in what ways do principles such as translation, cohabitation, and the diasporic frame provide the (a?) basis for rethinking the nation-state and nationalism? Articles should be between 6000-8000 words and are due June 1st 2018. We are also happy to discuss your ideas/abstracts beforehand. The deadline for those is February 1st 2018. Papers should be sent to the guest editors and should follow the guidelines for The European Legacy. Special Issue Editors: Dr. Anya Topolski, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen Louis Klee, University of Cambridge Email: a.topol...@ftr.ru.nl Web: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cele20/current __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __________________________________________________
