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Cain, Abel, and the Politics of God : An Agambenian Reading of Genesis 4:1-16 by Julián Andrés González Holguín is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.

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The Genesis story of Cain’s murder of Abel is often told as a simplistic contrast between the innocence of Abel and the evil of Cain. This book subverts that reading of the Biblical text by utilising Giorgio Agamben’s concepts of homo sacer, the state of exception and the idea of sovereignty to re-examine this well-known tale of fratricide and bring to the fore its political implications. Drawing from political theory, philosophy, and psychoanalysis, this book creates a theoretical framework fro

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Author

Julián Andrés González Holguín

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Group; Routledge

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781351731997

Category

religious

Subjects

Christian, Bible, Religion

Updated

2026-03-25