Abstract
ANGELAKI journal of the theoretical humanities volume 9 number 2 august 2004 “ f I could enclose all the evil of our time in I one image,” wrote Primo Levi from the center of Europe, “I would choose this image which is familiar to me.” This image, by now all too well known, is that of a figure which, in Auschwitz and increasingly so since then, has come to be called: the Muselmann, the Muslim. To consider the Muslim question in Europe today is to heed Primo...
ANGELAKI journal of the theoretical humanities volume 9 number 2 august 2004 “ f I could enclose all the evil of our time in I one image,” wrote Primo Levi from the center of Europe, “I would choose this image which is familiar to me.” This image, by now all too well known, is that of a figure which, in Auschwitz and increasingly so since then, has come to be called: the Muselmann, the Muslim. To consider the Muslim question in Europe today is to heed Primo Levi’s suggestion that the Muslim is the image of our time – the image of the space of Europe and beyond, and that of Israel/Palestine. At a time when geopolitical determinations gil anidjar inscribe their violent logic on the lives of Palestinians day in and day out, at a time when the apartheid situation that has long governed ON CULTURAL Palestinian realities is further materialized in the form of settlement expansion and house demoli- SURVIVAL tions, violent repression and repeated bombings, the erection of a life-choking and rights-denying wall, and the systematic pursuit of a policy of yesterday, the Muslims the minority of today. expulsion, random and/or massive killings and Underscoring as
Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities – Taylor & Francis
Published: Aug 1, 2004
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