The Fallacy of Analogy and the Risk of Moral Imperialism: Israeli Literature and the Palestinian Other

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ملخص

This article discusses the role of analogy within the ethics of reading. It examines how Israeli literature uses analogies when reflecting on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Many literary texts that depict the Israeli–Palestinian conflict draw analogies between the Israeli Jewish people and the Palestinians, between specific individuals on both sides, or between historical traumas. These analogies are designed to bridge gaps and encourage empathetic reading. This article challenges this role of analogy by arguing that analogies may in fact paint an erroneous picture of symmetrical relations, strengthen victimhood that denies responsibility, and can often lead to “empty empathy.” Analogies may also create a willfully deceptive understanding of the other, while actually maintaining a narcissistic superior stance. Based on philosophical notions put forward by Emmanuel Levinas, this article suggests a different path to ethical understanding in which the literary text, while still enabling analogy, uses other rhetorical devices to create relationships that suspend it and reveal its imposture
اللغة الأصليةإنجليزيّة أمريكيّة
عنوان منشور المضيفEthics and Literary Practice
المحررونAdam Zachary Newton
ناشرMDPI Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
الصفحات153-170
عدد الصفحات18
رقم المعيار الدولي للكتب (الإلكتروني)N 978-3-03928-505-1
رقم المعيار الدولي للكتب (المطبوع)978-3-03928-504-4
المعرِّفات الرقمية للأشياء
حالة النشرنُشِر - يونيو 2020

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