Contents

Preface

Introduction

PART IZionism Inside-Out

1The Last Resistance

2Displacement in Zion

3Mass Psychology

4The Hidden Life of Vladimir Jabotinsky

5David Grossman’s Dilemma

6Deadly Embrace

PART IIAfter Disaster

7The Body of Evil: Arendt, Coetzee and 9/11

8Freud and the People, or Freud Goes to Abu Ghraib

9On Being Nadine Gordimer

10Specimen Days: On Michael Cunningham and Walt Whitman

PART IIIMen and Women in Dark Times

11Continuing the Dialogue – On Edward Said

12Born Jewish – On Marcel Liebman

13All Men are Mortal – On Simone de Beauvoir

14Holocaust Premises: Political Implications of the Traumatic Frame – With Judith Butler

15On Gillian Rose

Notes

Index