{"id":325705,"date":"2025-10-08T11:01:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T08:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanleer.org.il\/?post_type=tac_posts&#038;p=325705"},"modified":"2025-10-15T16:44:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:44:14","slug":"apres-avec-et-malgre-le-7-octobrepreface","status":"publish","type":"tac_posts","link":"https:\/\/www.vanleer.org.il\/en\/tac_posts\/apres-avec-et-malgre-le-7-octobrepreface\/","title":{"rendered":"Preface"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><em data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">T<span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">heory and Criticism<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"><span class=\"x_gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>collaborated with the journal<span class=\"x_gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em>M\u00e9moires en jeu<\/em><span class=\"x_gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>on a special issue devoted to the Gaza war, entitled<span class=\"x_gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em>\u201cApr\u00e8s, avec et malgr\u00e9 le 7 octobre\u201d<\/em><span class=\"x_gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>(<em>h<span class=\"x_gmail_default\">ors s\u00e9rie<\/span><\/em>, <span class=\"x_gmail_default\">automne<\/span>\u00a02025). This volume features <span class=\"x_gmail_default\">in French\u00a0<\/span>several essays first published in issue 60 of<span class=\"x_gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em>Theory and Criticism<\/em>. The following excerpt is drawn from the introduction to the issue, written by the editor of<span class=\"x_gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em>M\u00e9moires en jeu<\/em>,<span class=\"x_gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Philippe Mesnard<span class=\"x_gmail_default\">:<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"><span class=\"x_gmail_default\">\"<\/span>Five critical approaches emerge from the dossier<span class=\"x_gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em>\u201cCritique de la guerre\u201d<\/em><span class=\"x_gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>(<em>Critique of War<\/em>), published in the summer of 2024 in the journal<span class=\"x_gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"x_gmail_default\">Theory and Criticism<\/span><\/em>, edited by<span class=\"x_gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Shaul Setter, who himself participated in the symposium of December 14, 2024. These voices come from Jewish and Palestinian scholars of Israeli nationality who address questions whose urgency has not been diminished by the acceleration of current events. While some of the arguments developed may not fully resonate with the positions of<span class=\"x_gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em>M\u00e9moires en jeu<\/em>\u2014except through the contradictory debate they invite\u2014choosing to make them available to readers constitutes a gesture of<span class=\"x_gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>hospitality<span class=\"x_gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>at a time marked by withdrawal and mutual deafness.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\"><em>M\u00e9moires en jeu<\/em><span class=\"x_gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>seeks to be a<span class=\"x_gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>democratic space, with all the risks that entails, refusing to give in to the prevailing ostracism or partisanship, to factional positions or disciplinary enclosures for which October 7 and its aftermath have provided\u2014if not the pretext\u2014at least the opportunity. Here,<span class=\"x_gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em>M\u00e9moires en jeu<\/em><span class=\"x_gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>affirms its<span class=\"x_gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>academic vocation<span class=\"x_gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>as a space of contradictory research, inseparable from a polyphonic and dialectical\u2014thus democratic\u2014mode of inquiry.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif;\">Moreover, we present here long and carefully developed texts whose content and form reflect the difficulty of reconciling rigorous analysis with the desire to find\u2014even in the narrowest sense\u2014a path toward<span class=\"x_gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>living together, despite the spiral of devastation following the massacres of October 7 and the ongoing oppression endured by the Palestinian population in the West Bank. In fact, the entire<span class=\"x_gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em>despite<\/em><span class=\"x_gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>of our general title may reside here: it is this <span class=\"x_gmail_default\">'<\/span>despite<span class=\"x_gmail_default\">'<\/span> that renders such hospitality possible.<span class=\"x_gmail_default\">\"<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tac-categories":[5291],"toc_tags":[4779],"class_list":["post-325705","tac_posts","type-tac_posts","status-publish","hentry","tac-categories-memoires-en-jeutac-en","toc_tags-opening"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Preface - The Vanleer Institute in Jerusalem<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vanleer.org.il\/tac_posts\/apres-avec-et-malgre-le-7-octobrepreface\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Preface - The Vanleer Institute in Jerusalem\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Theory and Criticism\u00a0collaborated with the journal\u00a0M\u00e9moires en jeu\u00a0on a special issue devoted to the Gaza war, entitled\u00a0\u201cApr\u00e8s, avec et malgr\u00e9 le 7 octobre\u201d\u00a0(hors s\u00e9rie, automne\u00a02025). 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