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Political Theology and Early Modernity

by Graham Hammill

  • Paperback
  • 352 pages
  • Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
  • 15.3 x 22.7 x 2.1 cm

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Political theology is a distinctly modern problem, one that takes shape in some of the most important theoretical writings of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. But its origins stem from the early modern period, in medieval iconographies of sacred kinship and the critique of traditional sovereignty mounted by Hobbes and Spinoza. In this book, Graham Hammill and Julia Reinhard Lupton assemble established and emerging scholars in early modern studies to examine the role played by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature and thought in modern conceptions of political theology. "Political Theology and Early Modernity" explores texts by Shakespeare, Machiavelli, Milton, and others that have served as points of departure for such thinkers as Schmitt, Strauss, Benjamin, and Arendt. Written from a spectrum of positions ranging from renewed defenses of secularism to attempts to reconceive the religious character of collective life and literary experience, these essays probe moments of productive conflict, disavowal, and entanglement in politics and religion as they pass between early modern and modern scenes of thought.This stimulating collection is the first to show not only how Renaissance and baroque literature help explain the persistence of political theology in modernity and postmodernity, but also how the reemergence of political theology deepens our understanding of the early modern period.
Political Theology and Early Modernity and The Borders of Justice
The Borders of JusticePolitical Theology and Early Modernity

  • Author

    Graham Hammill

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    The University of Chicago Press

  • Published

    October 2012

  • Weight

    432g

  • Page Count

    352

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.7 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780226314983

  • ISBN-10

    0226314987

  • Eden Code

    4042610

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