Disfiguring Christianity

This essay reads Anidjar's "critique of Christianity" to confront the history of Western rhetoric, in its separation of figure from referent. He reads blood as catachrestic—catachresis not as abuse of language but its actualization. From the perspective of the tropological system, one...

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Main Author: Iqbal, Basit Kareem (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2019]
In: Method & theory in the study of religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 31, Issue: 3, Pages: 261-280
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Anidjar, Gil 1964-, Blood / Christianity / Blood / Catachresis / Freud, Sigmund 1856-1939, Der Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion / Islam
IxTheo Classification:AA Study of religion
BJ Islam
CB Christian life; spirituality
Further subjects:B figure
B Catachresis
B Islam
B Critique
B Rhetoric
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