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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... historical divide. The saint elects to join the City of God at the expense of the City of Men. Her acts of extremity cannot ground ordinary life except as fantasy and nightmare, and she embraces the most con>ning restraints and ...
... historical divide. The saint elects to join the City of God at the expense of the City of Men. Her acts of extremity cannot ground ordinary life except as fantasy and nightmare, and she embraces the most con>ning restraints and ...
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... historical catastrophe, the term citizen-saint implies not only the opposition, but also the yoking of the terms, an incomplete passage from one to the other that marks their once and future union as a site of bridging as well as ...
... historical catastrophe, the term citizen-saint implies not only the opposition, but also the yoking of the terms, an incomplete passage from one to the other that marks their once and future union as a site of bridging as well as ...
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... historic cancellation of divinely sanctioned forms of sovereignty, it has also provided the breeding ground for heterodox styles of religious association and expression. In the desert, as Spinoza himself insists, there is no state; what ...
... historic cancellation of divinely sanctioned forms of sovereignty, it has also provided the breeding ground for heterodox styles of religious association and expression. In the desert, as Spinoza himself insists, there is no state; what ...
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... historical belonging, tensions that de>ne the covenantal consciousness of the West in both its evident failures and its surviving potential. From within the >eld of literary studies, this book makes the case for taking citizenship ...
... historical belonging, tensions that de>ne the covenantal consciousness of the West in both its evident failures and its surviving potential. From within the >eld of literary studies, this book makes the case for taking citizenship ...
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... historical and religious positions, become unlikely portents of social formations to come. In the >nal analysis, Shakespeare himself is a citizen-saint, an author who, by staging the exception in its political, theological, ethnographic ...
... historical and religious positions, become unlikely portents of social formations to come. In the >nal analysis, Shakespeare himself is a citizen-saint, an author who, by staging the exception in its political, theological, ethnographic ...
Inhalt
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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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