Catholics talking about Jews

[frandroid]

I don't think I can not cringe ever when people, especially Catholics, talk about "the Jews." Even hearing Kate Mulgrew talk about "this extraordinary race" to Gates McFadden while bemoaning antisemitism, I'm like, hmmm...

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[ioplokon]

re: Levinas, I think he fails a bit in his own mandate when it comes to how he conceptualizes women/sex difference, & elsewhere. But personally have found a lot of worthwhile stuff in his writing on difference/alterity and also time? Probably the first place I encountered non-teleological philosophy ("the future is genuinely new, it does not spring fully formed from the bones of the past" is also something I liked a lot). Also Judith Butler's Precarious Life draws heavily on Levinas & is also quite good, imo.