Citizen-Saints: Shakespeare and Political TheologyUniversity of Chicago Press, 11 Feb 2014 - 296 halaman 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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... constitutional possibility. In the case of Shakespeare, the fall of Macbeth leads to a fundamental change in the procedures of Scottish rule, the death of Claudius leads to the “election” of Fortinbras, and the deposition of Richard II ...
... constitutional possibility. In the case of Shakespeare, the fall of Macbeth leads to a fundamental change in the procedures of Scottish rule, the death of Claudius leads to the “election” of Fortinbras, and the deposition of Richard II ...
Halaman 2
... constitutional themes of Greek tragedy. Performed before the assembled citizenry of Athens, Greek tragedies celebrated the survival of the polis in the wake of the fall of the great aristocratic houses and the forms of clan-based a ...
... constitutional themes of Greek tragedy. Performed before the assembled citizenry of Athens, Greek tragedies celebrated the survival of the polis in the wake of the fall of the great aristocratic houses and the forms of clan-based a ...
Halaman 4
... Constitution, concerning the state of emergency. In 1922, Schmitt recovered political theology for modernity by publishing a small volume entitled Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty.The phrase, of course, is ...
... Constitution, concerning the state of emergency. In 1922, Schmitt recovered political theology for modernity by publishing a small volume entitled Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty.The phrase, of course, is ...
Halaman 11
... constitution of a people as equal partners in a national community through an act of contractual consent not only describes one version of what happened at Sinai, but also forms one of citizenship's central myths. The shifting status of ...
... constitution of a people as equal partners in a national community through an act of contractual consent not only describes one version of what happened at Sinai, but also forms one of citizenship's central myths. The shifting status of ...
Halaman 15
... to the agency of sexuality, all subjects are equal, from the child to the adult—that they deal only with that part of sexuality that passes into the networks of the constitution of the subject, into the networks 15 introduction.
... to the agency of sexuality, all subjects are equal, from the child to the adult—that they deal only with that part of sexuality that passes into the networks of the constitution of the subject, into the networks 15 introduction.
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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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