Gil Anidjar

On Diaspora

Philosophy

“"What are we to do, asks Daniel Barber, with Christianity? With our unavoidable inheritance of its tradition? Barber's thoughtful, albeit astonishing, answer is that we must formulate, finally, a concept of Christianity, gather it out of its disseminated state, from the originary diaspora Christianity has yet to achieve. Whether Christianity, 'actually existing Christianity,' retains the potential for such a challenge appears nowhere more in doubt-and nowhere more necessary-than in this unflinching meditation.”