When
Apr 22 20254:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Location
Hesburgh Center C103100 Hesburgh Center
Notre Dame, IN
Description
According to a common conception, politics is based on discussion and debate, the exchange of ideas, and rational argumentation, i.e., “logos.” Based on an analysis of the weaponization of antisemitism and other issues, Elad Lapidot, professor for Hebraic Studies at the University of Lille, France, will argue that contemporary political thought is just as importantly premised on the opposite conception: that politics is based not on speaking, but on the suspension of conversation, on the break of rational discourse – on “logoclasm,” or the politics of not speaking. Lapidot will draw on the work of Carl Schmitt, Martin Heidegger, Frantz Fanon, Gayatri Spivak, and Jacques Derrida to detail how this rupture intersects with key notions in modern politics, such as sovereignty, law, the state, violence, war, race, colonialism, and decolonization.
