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Blood : a critique of Christianity.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher number: MWT11864588Series: Religion, culture, and public lifePublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (463 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231537254
  • 0231537255
  • 1306776678
  • 9781306776677
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Blood : A Critique of Christianity.DDC classification:
  • 230
LOC classification:
  • BR115.B57 .A55 2014
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Table of Contents; Preface: Why I Am Such a Good Christian; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Red Mythology; Part One. The Vampire State; 1. Nation (Jesus' Kin); 2. State (The Vampire State); 3. Capital (Christians and Money); Part Two. Hematologies; 4. Odysseus' Blood; 5. Bleeding and Melancholia; 6. Leviathan and the Blood Pump; Conclusion: On the Christian Question (Jesus and Monotheism); Notes; Index.
Summary: 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 S.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)781051

Print version record.

Table of Contents; Preface: Why I Am Such a Good Christian; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Red Mythology; Part One. The Vampire State; 1. Nation (Jesus' Kin); 2. State (The Vampire State); 3. Capital (Christians and Money); Part Two. Hematologies; 4. Odysseus' Blood; 5. Bleeding and Melancholia; 6. Leviathan and the Blood Pump; Conclusion: On the Christian Question (Jesus and Monotheism); Notes; Index.

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 S.

Includes bibliographical references and index.