At the crossroads of ethics, poetics and politics, this innovative book outlines a series of notes to decolonize political theology. The author proposes counter-hegemonic forms of reading, which deconstruct domination by embracing fragility. The book opens with a diapason of prejudicelessness as a decolonial key, focusing on prejudices that hinder critical attention to a colonial political theology that perpetuates hatred. The first set of notes aims to ‘de-orientalize the Semite’ by reading midrashic and biblical texts in the present context, the second seeks to decolonize language by exploring the power of translation, and the third ponders decolonial theo-logics to outline a justice of the other. Connecting a number of fields, authors, and epistemologies, the book addresses the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and brings together Jewish thought, continental philosophy, and Latin American perspectives. It engages with a range of thinkers, including Benjamin and Arendt, and features an interview with Enrique Dussel as well as a foreword by Gil Anidjar. This is an important methodological proposal for interdisciplinary and intercultural political theology and a valuable contribution towards rethinking the paradigm of political theology beyond its Eurocentric and colonialist premises.
Foreword by Gil Anidjar
Preface
Diapason: Prejudicelessness and Hopes: Decolonizing Immunities
1 De-Orientalizing “The Semite”
2 The Hinge of Translations: To Decolonize Language
3 Decolonial Theo-Logics
Appendix: Toward a Justice of the Other: The Word to Come
Bibliography
Biography
Silvana Rabinovich is a Full Professor in the Institute for Philological Research (IIFL) at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She is author of Biblical Figures in Israel’s Colonial Political Theology (2022).
