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Gil Anidjar
Paternal, patriarchal, and fraternal concepts, metaphors, and images have long dominated thinking about politics. But the political, Gil Anidjar argues, has always been maternal.
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This book is a collection of essays about the invention-and disappearance-of the ‘Semites’ and the lingering effects, both institutional and theologico-political, of this invention.
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This book argues that in Christian Europe, the question of the enemy has for millennia been structured by the historical relation of Europe to both Arab and Jew. It provides…
This book offers a reading of Andalusi, Jewish, and Arabic texts that represent the 12th and 13th centuries as the end of el-Andalus (Islamic Spain).
Blood maps the singular history of Christianity. As a category for historical analysis, blood can be seen through its literal and metaphorical uses as determining and sometimes even defining Western…
Peter Szendy
Argues that reading, beyond its apparent linearity, is essentially prophetic, not only because Moby-Dick, for example, may appear to be full of unexpected prophecies but also, and more deeply, because…
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Jacques Derrida
Compiled in close association with Jacques Derrida, this volume brings together a number of Derrida’s writings on religion and questions of faith and their relation to philosophy and political culture…
Marc Nichanian
Genocide is a matter of law. It is also a matter of history. Engaging with responses to the Armenian genocide, Marc Nichanian reveals how law and history make this and…
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Adi M. Ophir,Ann Laura Stoler
Essays by major contemporary figures in political philosophy, anthropology, and cultural studies presenting an original reflection on the question what is a particular concept (classic concepts in politics as well…
Anish Kapoor is a British artist who came to prominence in the 1980s. He has since developed a distinctive body of work in stone, marble, pigment, stainless steel, and plaster…
In Political Theology on Edge, the discourse of political theology is seen as situated on an edge-that is, on the edge of a world that is grappling with global warming…
In this groundbreaking book, leading Arab and Jewish intellectuals examine how and why the Holocaust and the Nakba are interlinked without blurring fundamental differences between them. It searches for a…
