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Blood - A Critique of Christianity (Hardcover)
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Blood - A Critique of Christianity (Hardcover)
Series: Religion, Culture, and Public Life, 19
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Blood, in Gil Anidjar's argument, maps the singular history of
Christianity. 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 in nationalism, capitalism, and
law. Engaging with a variety of sources, Anidjar explores the
presence and the absence, the making and unmaking of blood in
philosophy and medicine, law and literature, and economic and
political thought, from ancient Greece to medieval Spain, from the
Bible to Shakespeare and Melville. The prevalence of blood in the
social, juridical, and political organization of the modern West
signals that we do not live in a secular age into which religion
could return. Flowing across multiple boundaries, infusing them
with violent precepts that we must address, blood undoes the
presumed oppositions between religion and politics, economy and
theology, and kinship and race. It demonstrates that what we think
of as modern is in fact imbued with Christianity. Christianity,
Blood fiercely argues, must be reconsidered beyond the boundaries
of religion alone.
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