No Place Like Home? A Dialogical Journey with Shlomo Biderman
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چکیده
This paper aims to think or rethink the concept of home as contemporary avatar age-old question self-identity. In dialogue with Shlomo Biderman, a comparative philosopher without borders who feels at both in Jewish and Indian sources, author assembles philosophical jigsaw-puzzle made different materials from thinking traditions attempt reveal new picture (and self) compatible changing world immigration, relocation, dislocation displacement, emigrants, refugees exiles, which we live. The puzzle pieces include Plato’s cave, Isaiah Berlin’s “inner citadel”, Shmuel Yosef Agnon’s “Ad Hena”, Herman Melville’s “Bartleby Scrivener”, Salman Rushdie’s “Imaginary Homelands”, Midrash Bereshit Rabbah, Bhagavadgītā Śaṅkara, Paul de Man on translation Zarina Hashmi’s artwork “Home is Foreign Place”. discussion culminates reflection foreignness embedded even one’s own mother tongue only translator (or “translated man”) can see feel. If alienation are recognized common human denominator, one sober up fantasy restoring an Edenic past language), primordial complete, then perhaps within shards language, humanity, type be envisioned, based solidarity compassion.
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عنوان ژورنال: Comparative philosophy
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2151-6014']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31979/2151-6014(2023).140207