Precarious Life: The Power of Mourning and Violence 9781844670055

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Table of contents :
Front Matter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Explanation and Exonerations, or What We Can Hear
2. Violence, Mourning, Politics
3. Indefinite Detention
4. The Charge of Anti-Semitism: Jews, Israel, and the Risks of Public Critique
5. Precarious Life
Notes
Index

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PRECARIOUS LIFE THE POWERS OF MOURNING AND VIOLENCE

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