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Elad Lapidot

Elad Lapidot is Professor for Jewish Thought at the University of Lille, France. His work is guided by questions concerning the relation between knowledge and politics. He is the author of Politics of Not Speaking (Albany: SUNY Press, 2025), as well as, among others, State of Others. Levinas and Decolonial Israel (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, forthcoming 2025), Jews Out of the Question. A Critique of Anti-Anti-Semitism (Albany: SUNY Press, 2020), Hebrew translation of Hegel’s Phänomenologie des Geistes (Tel Aviv: Resling Publishing, 2020) and Heidegger and Jewish Thought. Difficult Others, edited with M. Brumlik (London/New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018).

Symposia

Book Forum: The Politics of Not Speaking by Elad Lapidot

This forum reflects on Elad Lapidot’s The Politics of Not Speaking. In contrast to the common understanding of politics as a domain of speaking, this work reveals an alternative tradition where the spoken word fails, collapses, breaks (i.e., a politics of not speaking).

Essays

The Goyish Goy

The Jews is the great constant of this book, persisting from Old Testament to Tel Aviv, as an ahistorical collective, undisturbed by text and politics, what the book calls ethnos, goy. This book’s apriori is the Jews as a goy.