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Political theology and early modernity /

This title explores texts by Shakespeare, Machiavelli, Milton, and others that have served as points of departure for such thinkers as Schmitt, Strauss, Benjamin, and Arendt. The book shows how Renaissance and Baroque literature help explain the persistence of political theology in modernity and pos...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hammill, Graham L., Lupton, Julia Reinhard, 1963-, Balibar, Étienne, 1942-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Modern destinations. Political theology and liberal culture: Strauss, Schmitt, Spinoza, and Arendt / Victoria Kahn ; The tragicity of the political: a note on Carlo Galli's Reading of Carl Schmitt's Hamlet or Hecuba / Adam Sitze ; Hamlet: representation and the concrete / Carlo Galli ; Blumenberg and Schmitt on the rhetoric of political theology / Graham Hammill ; Political theologies of the corpus mysticum: Schmitt, Kantorowicz and de Lubac / Jennifer Rust ; Dead neighbor archives: Jews, Muslims, and the enemy's two bodies / Kathleen Biddick ; Novus Ordo Saeclorum: Hannah Arendt on revolutionary spirit / Paul A. Kottman ; Force and justice: Auerbach's Pascal / Jane O. Newman
  • Scenes of early modernity. The instance of the sovereign in the unconscious: the primal scenes of political theology / Jacques Lezra ; Pauline edifications: staging the sovereign softscape in Renaissance England / Julia Reinhard Lupton ; Striking the French match: Jean Bodin, Queen Elizabeth, and the occultation of sovereign marriage / Drew Daniel ; The death of Christ in and as secular law / Gregory Kneidel ; Samson uncircumcised / Jonathan Goldberg ; Postscript: The idea of a "New Enlightenment" [Nouvelles Lumières] and the contradictions of universalism / Étienne Balibar.