The Last Resistance
A bravura exploration of politics and writing in dark times

In The Last Resistance, Jacqueline Rose explores the power of writing to create and transform our political lives. In particular, she examines the role of literature in the Zionist imagination: here, literature is presented as a unique form of dissidence, with the power to expose the unconscious of nations, and often proposing radical alternatives to their dominant pathways and beliefs.

While Israel–Palestine is the repeated focus, The Last Resistance also turns to post-apartheid South Africa, to American national fantasy post-9/11, and to key moments for the understanding of Jewish culture and memory. Rose also underscores the importance of psychoanalysis, both historically in relation to the unfolding of world events, and as a tool of political understanding.

Examining topics ranging from David Grossman, through W.G. Sebald, Freud, Nadine Gordimer, the concept of evil, and suicide bombers, The Last Resistance offers a unique way of responding to the crises of the times.
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The Last Resistance
A bravura exploration of politics and writing in dark times

In The Last Resistance, Jacqueline Rose explores the power of writing to create and transform our political lives. In particular, she examines the role of literature in the Zionist imagination: here, literature is presented as a unique form of dissidence, with the power to expose the unconscious of nations, and often proposing radical alternatives to their dominant pathways and beliefs.

While Israel–Palestine is the repeated focus, The Last Resistance also turns to post-apartheid South Africa, to American national fantasy post-9/11, and to key moments for the understanding of Jewish culture and memory. Rose also underscores the importance of psychoanalysis, both historically in relation to the unfolding of world events, and as a tool of political understanding.

Examining topics ranging from David Grossman, through W.G. Sebald, Freud, Nadine Gordimer, the concept of evil, and suicide bombers, The Last Resistance offers a unique way of responding to the crises of the times.
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The Last Resistance

The Last Resistance

by Jacqueline Rose
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A bravura exploration of politics and writing in dark times

In The Last Resistance, Jacqueline Rose explores the power of writing to create and transform our political lives. In particular, she examines the role of literature in the Zionist imagination: here, literature is presented as a unique form of dissidence, with the power to expose the unconscious of nations, and often proposing radical alternatives to their dominant pathways and beliefs.

While Israel–Palestine is the repeated focus, The Last Resistance also turns to post-apartheid South Africa, to American national fantasy post-9/11, and to key moments for the understanding of Jewish culture and memory. Rose also underscores the importance of psychoanalysis, both historically in relation to the unfolding of world events, and as a tool of political understanding.

Examining topics ranging from David Grossman, through W.G. Sebald, Freud, Nadine Gordimer, the concept of evil, and suicide bombers, The Last Resistance offers a unique way of responding to the crises of the times.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781786630773
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 03/28/2017
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
File size: 383 KB

About the Author

Jacqueline Rose is internationally known for her writing on feminism, psychoanalysis, literature and the politics and ideology of Israel-Palestine. Her books include Sexuality in the Field of VisionThe Haunting of Sylvia PlathStates of FantasyThe Question of Zion, and most recently Women in Dark Times.

Table of Contents


Preface     xi
Introduction     1
Zionism Inside-Out     15
The Last Resistance     17
Displacement in Zion     39
Mass Psychology     62
The Hidden Life of Vladimir Jabotinsky     93
David Grossman's Dilemma     111
Deadly Embrace     125
After Disaster     137
The Body of Evil: Arendt, Coetzee and 9/11     139
Freud and the People, or Freud Goes to Abu Ghraib     159
On Being Nadine Gordimer     168
Specimen Days: On Michael Cunningham and Walt Whitman     182
Men and Women in Dark Times     191
Continuing the Dialogue - On Edward Said     193
Born Jewish - On Marcel Liebman     200
All Men are Mortal - On Simone de Beauvoir     209
Holocaust Premises: Political Implications of the Traumatic Frame - With Judith Buder     214
On Gillian Rose     223
Index     231

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Slavoj Zizek

A breathtakingly refined textual analysis sustains a passionate, ethical and political engagement in the ongoing Near East crisis. This alone makes her a model of what a public intellectual should be.

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