Monotheistic reason is threatened by the coexistence of Jew and Arab as sibling origins.
Evidence
It is therefore the being-together of these two brothers, of these two modalities of the origin, that is unbearable, as if their reunion threatened monotheistic reason in its fundamental concepts. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 2
Categorization
- DEFINE: Establishes the book’s central claim: ‘the jew’ and ‘the Arab’ are two modalities of a single origin whose togetherness is unbearable to monotheism.