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Blood: A Critique of Christianity (Religion, Culture, and Public Life #19)
by Gil AnidjarBlood, according to Gil Anidjar, maps the singular history of Christianity. As a category for historical analysis, blood can be seen through its literal and metaphorical uses as determining, sometimes even defining Western culture, politics, and social practices and their wide-ranging incarnations i... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
'Our Place In Al-andalus': Kabbalah, Philosophy, Literature In Arab Jewish Letters (Cultural Memory In The Present)
by Gil AnidjarThe year 1492 is only the last in a series of "ends" that inform the representation of medieval Spain in modern Jewish historical and literary discourses. These ends simultaneously mirror the traumas of history and shed light on the discursive process by which hermetic boundaries are set between per... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2002 -
The Jew, The Arab: A History of the Enemy (Cultural Memory in the Present #440)
by Gil AnidjarIs there a concept of the enemy? To what discursive sphere would it belong? Or, if there is no concept of the enemy, what are the factors that could have prevented its articulation? Following the reflections of Carl Schmitt and Jacques Derrida on the theologico-political, and reading canonical texts... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2003 -
The Historiographic Perversion
Genocide is a matter of law. It is also a matter of history. Engaging some of the most disturbing responses to the Armenian genocide, Marc Nichanian strikingly reveals the complex role played by law and history in making this and other genocides endure as contentious events. Nichanian's book argues ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon
by Jean L. Cohen • Ann Laura Stoler • Adi Ophir • Akeel Bilgrami • Gil Anidjar • Jacques Lezra • Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak • Étienne Balibar • Joan Copjec • J. M. Bernstein • Stathis Gourgouris • Andreas KalyvasDeciding what is and what is not political is a fraught, perhaps intractably opaque matter. Just who decides the question; on what grounds; to what ends—these seem like properly political questions themselves. Deciding what is political and what is not can serve to contain and restrain struggles, ma... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History (Religion, Culture, and Public Life #39)
by Jacqueline Rose • Omer Bartov • Gil Anidjar • Alon Confino • Yehouda Shenhav • Mark Levene • Hannan Hever • Refqa Abu-Remaileh • Omri Ben-Yehuda • Tal Ben-Zvi • Yochi Fischer • Honaida Ghanim • Mustafa Kabha • Nadim Khoury • Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin • Raef ZreikIn this groundbreaking book, leading Arab and Jewish intellectuals examine how and why the Holocaust and the Nakba are interlinked without blurring fundamental differences between them. While these two foundational tragedies are often discussed separately and in abstraction from the constitutive his... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Political Theology on Edge: Ruptures of Justice and Belief in the Anthropocene (Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia)
by Clayton Crockett • Gil Anidjar • William E. Connolly • Catherine Keller • L. L. Welborn • Kelly Brown Douglas • Noëlle Vahanian • Mehmet Karabela • Balbinder Singh Bhogal • J. Kameron Carter • Seth Gaiters • Lisa Gasson-Gardner • Winfield Goodwin • Lawrence Hillis • Michael Northcott • Austin RobertsIn Political Theology on Edge, the discourse of political theology is seen as situated on an edge—that is, on the edge of a world that is grappling with global warming, a brutal form of neoliberal capitalism, protests against racism and police brutality, and the COVID-19 pandemic. This edge is also ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022