Symposium Introduction: Blood: A critique of Christianity by Gil Anidjar

• Main Author: TSE, Justin Kh
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: Arts and Humanities; Religion
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3380; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4637/viewcontent/Blood_2015_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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.