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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... Religion. 7. Christian saints in literature. 8. Citizenship in literature. I. Title. PR3017.L87 2005 822.33—dc22 2004018510 o This paper meets the minimum requirements ofANSI/NISO Z39.48- 1992 (Permanence of Paper). For my daughters and ...
... Religion. 7. Christian saints in literature. 8. Citizenship in literature. I. Title. PR3017.L87 2005 822.33—dc22 2004018510 o This paper meets the minimum requirements ofANSI/NISO Z39.48- 1992 (Permanence of Paper). For my daughters and ...
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... religion to the private world of individual conscience and purely civil (rather than civic) associations. Ornamented with the attributes of martyrdom, the saint has become the nostalgic afterimage of a lost exceptionality forever ...
... religion to the private world of individual conscience and purely civil (rather than civic) associations. Ornamented with the attributes of martyrdom, the saint has become the nostalgic afterimage of a lost exceptionality forever ...
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... religious rituals (Gentile or Jewish) that sustained them in order to join a new community based on other forms of identi>cation and participation. Weber enunciates a certain mythos of Western citizenship that forms a recurrent object ...
... religious rituals (Gentile or Jewish) that sustained them in order to join a new community based on other forms of identi>cation and participation. Weber enunciates a certain mythos of Western citizenship that forms a recurrent object ...
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... religion with tribalism—in order to critique it as delusion, in the tradition of the Enlightenment, or to turn it into culture, in the manner of Romanticism—fails to recognize the contributions that religious discourse, especially that ...
... religion with tribalism—in order to critique it as delusion, in the tradition of the Enlightenment, or to turn it into culture, in the manner of Romanticism—fails to recognize the contributions that religious discourse, especially that ...
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... religious discourses, especially in the theory and iconography of the divine right of kings. In Shakespeare studies, Schmitt's concept of political theology has had a deeply structuring impact via the work of Ernst Kantorowicz and ...
... religious discourses, especially in the theory and iconography of the divine right of kings. In Shakespeare studies, Schmitt's concept of political theology has had a deeply structuring impact via the work of Ernst Kantorowicz and ...
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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