Symposium Introduction: Blood: A critique of Christianity by Gil Anidjar
Gil Anidjar’s Blood: A Critique of Christianity may well be a book, but Anidjar wishes that it wasn’t: “Instead, one could imagine the whole thing as restless and otherwise bound, neither new science nor archaeology, but rather partaking of a different, older tradition of disputation” (xi). The disp...
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2015
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| Summary: | Gil Anidjar’s Blood: A Critique of Christianity may well be a book, but Anidjar wishes that it wasn’t: “Instead, one could imagine the whole thing as restless and otherwise bound, neither new science nor archaeology, but rather partaking of a different, older tradition of disputation” (xi). The disputation is alive, and dispute it certainly does, with references to critical theory and historical texts circulating as though the book (or rather, the “disputation”) were a capillary system rushing with blood. |
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