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 e
Blood, 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
This collection of essays explores the now mostly extinct notion of ?Semites.” Invented in the nineteenth century and essential to the making of modern conceptions of religion and race, the strange un
Europe and only Europe is the arena that Anidjar (Middle East and Asian languages, Columbia U.) considers as he investigates how the enemy becomes an enemy, and traces the history of that particular e
The 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 m
After setting the stage with a discussion of the 1692 War on Witches in Salem, Massachusetts, Anidjar (Middle East and Asian languages and cultures, Columbia U.) assembles four essays that summarize--
Is 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 ref
Reading Melville is not only reading. Reading Melville means being already engaged in the abyssal process of reading reading. Reading what reading is and what reading does.With Melville, Prophecies of
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 a
Acts of Religion, compiled in close association with Jacques Derrida, brings together for the first time a number of Derrida's writings on religion and questions of faith and their relation to philoso
