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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... creation abandoned by its Creator? These are some of the questions that I will attempt to answer under the rubric of the citizen-saint. The phrase political theology is associated with the writings of Carl Schmitt, a conservative ...
... creation abandoned by its Creator? These are some of the questions that I will attempt to answer under the rubric of the citizen-saint. The phrase political theology is associated with the writings of Carl Schmitt, a conservative ...
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... creation ex nihilo. Yet if Shakespeare's plays, especially his tragedies, are sundered by the lightening bolt of the monarch's caprice, his dramas, especially his comedies, are just as much concerned with the genesis, reestablishment ...
... creation ex nihilo. Yet if Shakespeare's plays, especially his tragedies, are sundered by the lightening bolt of the monarch's caprice, his dramas, especially his comedies, are just as much concerned with the genesis, reestablishment ...
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... Creation. My interest is not, as in previous work, in the narratological legacy of medieval hagiography per se,28 but in theological conceptions of national and ethnic belonging and their imperfect translations into modern forms of ...
... Creation. My interest is not, as in previous work, in the narratological legacy of medieval hagiography per se,28 but in theological conceptions of national and ethnic belonging and their imperfect translations into modern forms of ...
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... creation, Shakespeare explores the possibility of a creaturely humanism that would exist beyond the division of humanity into the stems of the nations. Shakespeare was neither Greek nor Jew, neither Republican nor Democrat. He wrote his ...
... creation, Shakespeare explores the possibility of a creaturely humanism that would exist beyond the division of humanity into the stems of the nations. Shakespeare was neither Greek nor Jew, neither Republican nor Democrat. He wrote his ...
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... creation and preservation of a covenantal community—especially circumcision and the dietary laws—are the frequent focus, if not indeed object of attack, of Paul's discourse on Jewish-Gentile relations.5 Daniel Boyarin, a leader in the ...
... creation and preservation of a covenantal community—especially circumcision and the dietary laws—are the frequent focus, if not indeed object of attack, of Paul's discourse on Jewish-Gentile relations.5 Daniel Boyarin, a leader in the ...
Inhalt
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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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