Excluding from Humanity: Through United Bears to the Palestinian Talmud Today

This essay articulates a structural feature and difficulty in the notion of universal humanism: the mechanism of inner exclusion. First, by discussing the historical paradigm of membership in “Israel,” a conceptual–theoretical description of inner exclusion comes into view. There then follows a comp...

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Published in:Political theology
Main Author: Dolgopolski, Sergey 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group 2023
In: Political theology
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Talmûd yerûšalmî / Kant, Immanuel 1724-1804 / Humanism / Universalism / Jews / Exclusion / Riga / Kunststoffplastik / Bear (Motif) / Exhibition / Geschichte 2018
RelBib Classification:BH Judaism
KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
NCC Social ethics
NCD Political ethics
Further subjects:B Palestinian Talmud
B universal humanity
B Holocaust studies
B Rabbinics
B Holocaust
B Political Theory
B Universalism
B Aesthetics
B Jaspers
B Kant
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Summary:This essay articulates a structural feature and difficulty in the notion of universal humanism: the mechanism of inner exclusion. First, by discussing the historical paradigm of membership in “Israel,” a conceptual–theoretical description of inner exclusion comes into view. There then follows a comparative analysis of inner exclusions in three discourses: schematic universal humanism, exemplified in the art installation United Bears, Kant’s universal experience of sublime, and the Palestinian Talmud (PT) approach to the divine law. The PT model suspends the impulses of the universalization, let alone the unification of law. This suspension is excluded from within in Kant’s universalism of a fully citable law. The applied result of this essay is that historical inclusion of the Jews in universal humanity ignores the conditions that enabled their exclusion from humanity in the first place.
ISSN:1743-1719
Contains:Enthalten in: Political theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2021.1986201