The Abrahamic exceeds being merely empirical, historical, or identitarian

Evidence

Insofar as it transcends each of those “fields,” the Abrahamic as condition reveals itself as exceeding legibility. It is, in other words, difficult to read. More than a historical moment (be it a general historical moment or a so-called “personal” or autobiographical moment in Jacques Derrida’s history), the Abrahamic instead constitutes the occasion for an interrogation of the empirico-transcendental distinction, opening onto “what constitutes our history and what produced transcendentality itsel£” And the Abrahamic naming, “the Jew, the Arab,” can no longer simply be empirical, identitarian, or historicist. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 249

Categorization

• DEFINE: Frames ‘the Abrahamic’ as a condition exceeding legibility rather than a historical moment.
• XREF: connects to: Christ’s historical life is only graspable through the speculative Idea, not biography — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 836