[lbo-talk] "Heavenly Decreed Exile" and the Last Jewish Intellectual (was Israel Must Win By Gilad Atzmon)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 8/25/06, Michael Pugliese <michael.098762001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/25/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Because they live in exile, the state of statelessness, the
> > essence of
> > modern and post-modern aesthetics and philosophy.
>
> So modernism and post-modernism is to live in mass poverty in
> overcrowded ghettos and camps, subject to thuggish violence and
> religious obscurantism  from ones "liberators": and oppressors alike?

You can be neither an artist nor a philosopher if you insist on being
literal-minded always.  The way of life and state of mind that Edward
Said wished to recommend is to be at home in exile, rather than
seeking to build a homeland of their own that excludes all others, but
neither Jews nor Palestinians -- nor any other people for that matter
-- have taken to his recommendation, at least not many of them.  It
lives as an ideal in art and philosophy, however.
-- 
Yoshie
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