Abstract

Alfonso Maurizio Iacono and Alberto Martinengo discuss Donatella Di Cesare's Israele. "Terra, ritorno, anarchia" (Israel. "Land, Return, Anarchy"). Iacono emphasizes the utopian meaning of the history of Israel. He follows Di Cesare's reading of Buber and Landauer, in order to focus on the revolutionary content of the Biblical notion of a land for Israel. Martinengo questions the concept of identity as it emerges in the book: the prophetic content of Israel's claim to exist lies at the end of any modern idea of autochthony.