Citizen-Saints: Shakespeare and Political TheologyUniversity of Chicago Press, 11.02.2014 - 296 Seiten Turning to the potent idea of political theology to recover the strange mix of political and religious thinking during the Renaissance, this bracing study reveals in the works of Shakespeare and his sources the figure of the citizen-saint, who represents at once divine messenger and civil servant, both norm and exception. Embodied by such diverse personages as Antigone, Paul, Barabbas, Shylock, Othello, Caliban, Isabella, and Samson, the citizen-saint is a sacrificial figure: a model of moral and aesthetic extremity who inspires new regimes of citizenship with his or her death and martyrdom. Among the many questions Julia Reinhard Lupton attempts to answer under the rubric of the citizen-saint are: how did states of emergency, acts of sovereign exception, and Messianic anticipations lead to new forms of religious and political law? What styles of universality were implied by the abject state of the pure creature, at sea in a creation abandoned by its creator? And how did circumcision operate as both a marker of ethnicity and a means of conversion and civic naturalization? Written with clarity and grace, Citizen-Saints will be of enormous interest to students of English literature, religion, and early modern culture. |
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... note on texts xi introduction 1 one Citizen Paul 19 two Deformations of Fellowship in Marlowe's Jew of Malta 49 three Merchants of Venice, Circles of Citizenship 73 four Othello Circumcised 103 five Antigone in Vienna 125 six Contents.
... note on texts xi introduction 1 one Citizen Paul 19 two Deformations of Fellowship in Marlowe's Jew of Malta 49 three Merchants of Venice, Circles of Citizenship 73 four Othello Circumcised 103 five Antigone in Vienna 125 six Contents.
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Shakespeare and Political Theology Julia Reinhard Lupton. four Othello Circumcised 103 five Antigone in Vienna 125 six Creature Caliban 159 seven Samson Dagonistes 181 epilogue The Literature of Citizenship: A Humanifesto 205 Notes 217 ...
Shakespeare and Political Theology Julia Reinhard Lupton. four Othello Circumcised 103 five Antigone in Vienna 125 six Creature Caliban 159 seven Samson Dagonistes 181 epilogue The Literature of Citizenship: A Humanifesto 205 Notes 217 ...
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... Antigone, for example, the hubris of both Creon and Antigone yields to the collective voice of the Chorus, the last speakers on a stage emptied of epic excellence (arête) and outmoded kinship love (philôtes). Composed of dull old men ...
... Antigone, for example, the hubris of both Creon and Antigone yields to the collective voice of the Chorus, the last speakers on a stage emptied of epic excellence (arête) and outmoded kinship love (philôtes). Composed of dull old men ...
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... rights and obligations, the rejection of marriage, embodied by the radical celibacy of the saint, interrupts the romance between horizontal and vertical forms of relation anointed by marriage. Beginning with Antigone, the 11 introduction.
... rights and obligations, the rejection of marriage, embodied by the radical celibacy of the saint, interrupts the romance between horizontal and vertical forms of relation anointed by marriage. Beginning with Antigone, the 11 introduction.
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... Antigone, the order of celibacy represented by the saint exists at cross-purposes with this fundamental metaphor and organizing bond of citizenship, and is thus part of the sociosexual unconscious of modern political forms. The marriage ...
... Antigone, the order of celibacy represented by the saint exists at cross-purposes with this fundamental metaphor and organizing bond of citizenship, and is thus part of the sociosexual unconscious of modern political forms. The marriage ...
Inhalt
1 | |
19 | |
Deformations of Fellowship in Marlowes Jew of Malta | 49 |
Merchants of Venice Circles of Citizenship | 73 |
Othello Circumcised | 103 |
Antigone in Vienna | 125 |
Creature Caliban | 159 |
Samson Dagonistes | 181 |
The Literature of Citizenship A Humanifesto | 205 |
Notes | 217 |
Bibliography | 255 |
Index | 271 |
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