Introduction: self-departure, exile, and the critique of Zionism
Impossible, necessary task: Said, Levinas, and the ethical demand
Unable to kill: Levinas contra Levinas
Walter Benjamin and the critique of violence
Flashing up: Benjamin's Messianic politics
Is Judaism Zionism?: Or, Arendt and the critique of the nation-state
Quandaries of the plural: cohabitation and sovereignty in Arendt
Primo Levi for the present
"What shall we do without exile?": Said and Darwish address the future.