G Anidjar
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 65957 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | G Anidjar |
| NOMBRES | G |
| APELLIDO | Anidjar |
| FIRMA | ANIDJAR G |
| AFILIACIONES | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2214-9469 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 127 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Solicitude II ( De Inimicis )
The victim, the enemy. The victim or the enemy, if there is a difference. But how many are these? Against the expected odds, I have counted more than one, plus d’un. I count the Jew, the Arab and more, in any case, too many enemies. Here and elsewhere, there is always more, increasingly more than one enemy, few of which are identified or identifiable along state lines, much less confined to the state of nature, or even to the state of war, to the…
The death of the people
Death, Derrida suggests in Politics of Friendship, is a question of numbers. Yet, death is also always ?mine,? which is why Heidegger can say that ?the dying of Others is not something which we experience in a genuine sense; at most we are always just ?there alongside?.? Between my death and the death of everyone, between the one and the infinitely many, I have found myself wondering about a different measure, a more limited and distinct grammati…
The rights of whites (in search of a majority)
Like every concept, perhaps, the concept of minority can only function differentially. It is differential with regard to majority, of course, and with regard to other categories of groups, communities, or collectives, identified as minorities. The polysemy, and even vagueness, of the concept of minority, along with its distribution across a range of discursive fields, adds to its differential dimension as the word “minority” must relate to or car…
Solicitude
Was Derrida a mama’s boy? Was he not hiding or indeed manifesting, ostensibly displaying even, mommy issues? Let us posit that Derrida had a substantial, perhaps an inordinate amount of things to say about mothers in general, about surrogate mothers too, and about his own mother in particular. Derrida did confess having taken the side of his mother. Yet, what I really want to ask is whether, from Plato to Nancy and, more obviously, from Rousseau …
That Great Mother of Danger”
Were one to trust the experts of “the risk society,” and the countless volumes that take risk as their object, one might conclude that we have lost sight of danger. How secure is the distinction? This essay registers the discursive proliferation that has surrounded risk, as opposed to the poverty of theorizations of danger. Since Mary Douglas's famous 1966 contribution, it is as if the two terms were synonymous. Yet linguistic usage, along with o…
The economy proper
Il Faut Bien Compter
Friends Like These (A Comico-Political Essay)
Exile, a joke that stages exile, seems as good a point of entry as any into − and perhaps also away from − the Jewish question, the question of Jewish friends and the narcissism of whatever differences (our »echo chambers,« in todays parlance). Freud describes the joke, the Witz, as a story of friendship and of enmity, with a twist. For the scheme of the joke is not dyadic (friend, enemy; us, them), nor is it quite dialectical. The joke rather ca…
Homo Discens
What was enlightenment
Żyd, Arab. Historia wroga
Tekst jest fragmentem książki The Jew, The Arab. A History of the Enemy poświęconej historii wrogości między Arabami i Żydami, a także historii związku tego konfliktu z kształtowaniem się zarówno tożsamości w Europie, jak i tożsamości samych Arabów i Żydów. Śledząc rozważania takich filozofów jak Carl Schmitt czy Jacques Derrida, autor stara się przedstawić mechanizmy odpowiedzialne za tworzenie różnic pierwotnych względem tożsamości i jednocześn…
Redrum
This essay is a response to readers and discussants with regard to Blood and to the limits and origins of Christianity. Deploying the Derridean idiom of mark and context, the singularity of blood in Christianity, of Christianity in its relation to blood, is what is here reiterated
Oversight
Is surveillance a weapon? Does it have a destructive dimension, destructive effects and consequences? Revisiting Foucault on the productive dimensions of power, this article attends to these questions by focusing on the question of subjectivity. It acknowledges the importance of reflections that take the target of surveillance as their primary concerns - Islamophobia - but proposes that vigilance and insomnia (notions that were conceptualized in …
The All-Burning
Weapons (Inscription, Destruction, Deconstruction)
If writing has been understood as a supplement to a primary orality and a full presence, such is also true of tools or instruments, similarly conceived as secondary and derivative, supplements of a living and generative nature. But what about other dangerous supplements? What about those tools, instruments, machines or engines of death and of destruction? What about weapons? They might appear more derivative still, farther accessories in a positi…
The Suicide State
When he refers to civil war as “self-laceration,” Carl Schmitt evokes a strange figure, whereby the state could be bound for self-destruction. In this essay, I am less interested in civil war than in the conception of a state as suicidal. What could that even mean? What could be gained by asking whether there are, among states, suicide states? What kind of destruction, what kind of politics, are thereby made manifest? My concerns ultimately align…
Religion et race
On n'a pas toujours reconnu l'Autre comme « religieux ». On ne s'est pas partout servi du latin pour le comprendre, le classifier, le gouverner. Comme la race, la notion de religion n'est qu'un chapitre dans l'histoire du savoir et du pouvoir, chapitre provisoire, éphémère, embarrassant. Race et religion ? Contre une histoire qui les maintient distinctes et séparées, contre une périodisation qui conçoit la religion comme un « fait » archaïque ou …
Derrida religieux
The Forgetting of Christianity
What is Christianity? What is its sense? Is it a religion, a religion like all other religions? In joining a chorus of European philosophers who have returned to Paul or to Christianity, Jean-Luc Nancy retains the Latin word “religion” as the uninterrogated marker of Christianity and other “world religions.” Religion is thus the site of an ambiguous “sharing,” of which Christianity partakes perhaps more than others — but within which limits? Besi…
The Dignity of Weapons
In this article, I wish to ask about the dignity of weapons, the kind of elevated worth weapons appear to have acquired despite (or because) of their role in the production of indignity, a worth which, perhaps not as paradoxically as it may otherwise appear, constitutes (or rather de-constitutes) human dignity. I shall not take Kant as my guide, though, but the other K, namely, Franz Kafka
Christianity, Christianities, Christian
The relation between the concept of religion and its Christian determinations has surely become increasingly visible. In the study of religion, Christianity (vera religio, western Christendom) has served as a paradigmatic occasion, a prime focus, of constant research and investigation. Its history and transformations have rightly been studied in a plethora of ways and approaches. Throughout, the question of Christianity – if there is one – linger…
The History of Race, the Race of History
The History of Race, the Race of History Gil Anidjar Mitchell B. Hart, editor. Jews and Race: Writings on Identity and Difference, 1880–1940. Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry Series. Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought. Waltham, Mass., Brandeis University Press, 2011. Pp. xxxix + 281. Iris Idelson-Shein. Difference of a Different Kind: Jewish Constructions of Race during the Long Eighteenth Century. Jewish Cultures and Conte…
Blood
Blood , according to Gil Anidjar, maps the singular history of Christianity. As 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 blo…
IIThe Violence of Violence
Return to Moses
Secularism
The Idea of an Anthropology of Christianity
The writings of Talal Asad offer a consistent and singular reflection on the anthropological function of concepts. In a variety of manners, the use and mention of a concept identifies the practice of a collective speaker before it testifies to a designated object, real or imagined. The Christian baggage of the concept of 'religion', indeed, the Christianity of the subject of religion, however, is at once affirmed and denied by Talal Asad. Is Chri…
The Meaning of Life
Christianity, Christianities, Christian
The relation between the concept of religion and its Christian determinations has surely become increasingly visible. In the study of religion, Christianity (vera religio, western Christendom) has served as a paradigmatic occasion, a prime focus, of constant research and investigation. Its history and transformations have rightly been studied in a plethora of ways and approaches. Throughout, the question of Christianity – if there is one – linger…
Futures of al-Andalus
Blutgewalt
The History of Race, the Race of History
The History of Race, the Race of History Gil Anidjar Mitchell B. Hart, editor. Jews and Race: Writings on Identity and Difference, 1880–1940. Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry Series. Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought. Waltham, Mass., Brandeis University Press, 2011. Pp. xxxix + 281. Iris Idelson-Shein. Difference of a Different Kind: Jewish Constructions of Race during the Long Eighteenth Century. Jewish Cultures and Conte…
Terror Right
The enemy is not one. He is at least two. This may constitute a serious, even dangerous problem, Carl Schmitt tells us. Writing in 1950, Schmitt is beginning to elaborate this thought, which will culminate in a sharp formulation in the Theory of the Partisan in 1963. Yet, Schmitt already knows much of what he is talking about. He prompts us, in fact, to consider the two enemies as a lesson from medieval political theory—a lesson that will turn ou…
What was enlightenment
The Suicide State
When he refers to civil war as “self-laceration,” Carl Schmitt evokes a strange figure, whereby the state could be bound for self-destruction. In this essay, I am less interested in civil war than in the conception of a state as suicidal. What could that even mean? What could be gained by asking whether there are, among states, suicide states? What kind of destruction, what kind of politics, are thereby made manifest? My concerns ultimately align…
The Dignity of Weapons
In this article, I wish to ask about the dignity of weapons, the kind of elevated worth weapons appear to have acquired despite (or because) of their role in the production of indignity, a worth which, perhaps not as paradoxically as it may otherwise appear, constitutes (or rather de-constitutes) human dignity. I shall not take Kant as my guide, though, but the other K, namely, Franz Kafka
IIThe Violence of Violence
Can the walls hear
In order for walls to hear, they first need to be erected. Anidjar's essay is concerned with the walls and divisions that have long isolated the Christian West from its Others, while functioning to divide and separate these Others from themselves and from each other. These walls are also, first of all or finally, internal divisions (religion and politics, antisemitism and Islamophobia etc.) that constitute and structure prejudice as a singular mo…
The Jew, the Arab
Is there a concept of the enemy? To what discursive sphere would it belong? Or, if there is no concept of the enemy, what are the factors that could have prevented its articulation? Following the reflections of Carl Schmitt and Jacques Derrida on the theologico-political, and reading canonical texts from the Western philosophical, political, and religious traditions, the author seeks to account for the absence of a history of the enemy. The quest…
Terror Right
The enemy is not one. He is at least two. This may constitute a serious, even dangerous problem, Carl Schmitt tells us. Writing in 1950, Schmitt is beginning to elaborate this thought, which will culminate in a sharp formulation in the Theory of the Partisan in 1963. Yet, Schmitt already knows much of what he is talking about. He prompts us, in fact, to consider the two enemies as a lesson from medieval political theory—a lesson that will turn ou…
Après Le Sémite
On the Border
Literary History and Hebrew Modernity
Research Article| January 01 2005 Literary History and Hebrew Modernity Gil Anidjar Gil Anidjar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2005) 42 (4): 277–296. https://doi.org/10.2307/40247504 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Gil Anidjar; Literary History and Hebrew Modernity. Comparative Literature Studies 1 January 2005; 42 (4): 277–296. doi: https://doi.o…
Futures of al-Andalus
Our Time in One Image’
Secularism
Semites
This collection of essays explores the now mostly extinct notion of "Semites." Invented in the nineteenth century and essential to the making of modern conceptions of religion and race, the strange unity of Jew and Arab under one term, "Semite" (the opposing term was "Aryan"), and the circumstances that brought about its disappearance constitute the subject of this volume. With a focus on the history of disciplines (including religious studies an…
Muslim Jews
Research Article| June 01 2009 Muslim Jews Gil Anidjar Gil Anidjar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2009) 18 (1): 1–23. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.18.1.1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Gil Anidjar; Muslim Jews. Qui Parle 1 June 2009; 18 (1): 1–23. doi: https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.18.1.1 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manage…
Of Rats and Names (Reflections on Hate)
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Blutgewalt
Can the walls hear
In order for walls to hear, they first need to be erected. Anidjar's essay is concerned with the walls and divisions that have long isolated the Christian West from its Others, while functioning to divide and separate these Others from themselves and from each other. These walls are also, first of all or finally, internal divisions (religion and politics, antisemitism and Islamophobia etc.) that constitute and structure prejudice as a singular mo…
The Idea of an Anthropology of Christianity
The writings of Talal Asad offer a consistent and singular reflection on the anthropological function of concepts. In a variety of manners, the use and mention of a concept identifies the practice of a collective speaker before it testifies to a designated object, real or imagined. The Christian baggage of the concept of 'religion', indeed, the Christianity of the subject of religion, however, is at once affirmed and denied by Talal Asad. Is Chri…
Between Past and Present, Jew and Arab
Amira Hass, Haaretz 's fearless journalist, recently told the following joke, an allegory of sorts, set during the Turco-Russian war. Moishele is about to depart for the front, and so his mother offers some sensible advice. “Please take care of yourself, my son. Pace yourself. Kill a Turk all right, but then make sure you rest afterwards. Eat something. Sleep a little. Then go back if you must, kill another Turk, and take another break. Drink lot…
Eruptions
Eruptions: NYC MustTagAliens Marlène Ramírez-Cancio, Brenda Iijima, Delores Jones-Brown, Diana Taylor, Gil Anidjar, Gregory Fried, Hamid Dabashi, John Hutnyk, Linda Martín Alcoff, Sunita Viswanath, Steven Pludwin, and Daniel Skinner For the Safe Issue, we asked contributors to reflect on the MTA’s “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign, what they thought it was hailing them to do and what they thought of that interpellation. We requested …
The Meaning of Life
Return to Moses
Blood
Blood , according to Gil Anidjar, maps the singular history of Christianity. As 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 blo…
IIThe Violence of Violence
The Forgetting of Christianity
What is Christianity? What is its sense? Is it a religion, a religion like all other religions? In joining a chorus of European philosophers who have returned to Paul or to Christianity, Jean-Luc Nancy retains the Latin word “religion” as the uninterrogated marker of Christianity and other “world religions.” Religion is thus the site of an ambiguous “sharing,” of which Christianity partakes perhaps more than others — but within which limits? Besi…
The Dignity of Weapons
In this article, I wish to ask about the dignity of weapons, the kind of elevated worth weapons appear to have acquired despite (or because) of their role in the production of indignity, a worth which, perhaps not as paradoxically as it may otherwise appear, constitutes (or rather de-constitutes) human dignity. I shall not take Kant as my guide, though, but the other K, namely, Franz Kafka
Christianity, Christianities, Christian
The relation between the concept of religion and its Christian determinations has surely become increasingly visible. In the study of religion, Christianity (vera religio, western Christendom) has served as a paradigmatic occasion, a prime focus, of constant research and investigation. Its history and transformations have rightly been studied in a plethora of ways and approaches. Throughout, the question of Christianity – if there is one – linger…
The History of Race, the Race of History
The History of Race, the Race of History Gil Anidjar Mitchell B. Hart, editor. Jews and Race: Writings on Identity and Difference, 1880–1940. Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry Series. Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought. Waltham, Mass., Brandeis University Press, 2011. Pp. xxxix + 281. Iris Idelson-Shein. Difference of a Different Kind: Jewish Constructions of Race during the Long Eighteenth Century. Jewish Cultures and Conte…
Derrida religieux
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