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Blood : a critique of Christianity.
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 incarnatio...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Religion, culture, and public life.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (463 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780231537254 0231537255 1306776678 9781306776677 |