The Politics of Purim : Law, Sovereignty and Hospitality in the Aesthetic Afterlives of Esther (Hardcover)

Introduction: The Politics of Persecution I. Lawlessness, Sovereignty and In-hospitality 1. Carnival, Lawlessness and Sovereignty 2. The State of Exception, Amalek and Sovereign Hospitality II. Purim and the Enemy 3. The Anti-Memorial of Remembering to Forget 4. The Art of Exception in the Illuminated Megillah 5. Bare Life and Sovereignty III. The Secular Politics of Esther: Sovereign and Legal Fallibility 6. Law's Limitations 7. Creaturely Sovereignty IV. Purim and Hospitality 8. Esther the Good Host and the Good Sovereign 9. Mordecai's Mourning: Exclusion and Vulnerability 10. 'Shalokh Manos Re-mixed': An Aftselakhis Purimshpil Conclusion