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.
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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.