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The Future of Illusion
- Political Theology and Early Modern Texts
Engelsk
Bogcover for The Future of Illusion af Victoria Kahn, 9780226379371
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Engelsk
Sider:
260
ISBN-13:
9780226379371
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
022637937X
Udg. Dato:
11 jul 2016
Størrelse i cm:
15,5 x 28,0 x 2,2
Oplagsdato:
11 jul 2016
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The Future of Illusion

- Political Theology and Early Modern Texts
Engelsk
Paperback 2016
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In recent years, the rise of fundamentalism and a related turn to religion in the humanities have led to a powerful resurgence of interest in the problem of political theology. In a critique of this contemporary fascination with the theological underpinnings of modern politics, Victoria Kahn proposes a return to secularism—whose origins she locates in the art, literature, and political theory of the early modern period—and argues in defense of literature and art as a force for secular liberal culture. Kahn draws on theorists such as Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss, Walter Benjamin, and Hannah Arendt and their readings of Shakespeare, Hobbes, Machiavelli, and Spinoza to illustrate that the dialogue between these modern and early modern figures can help us rethink the contemporary problem of political theology. Twentieth-century critics, she shows, saw the early modern period as a break from the older form of political theology that entailed the theological legitimization of the state. Rather, the period signaled a new emphasis on a secular notion of human agency and a new preoccupation with the ways art and fiction intersected the terrain of religion. 
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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
260
ISBN-13:
9780226379371
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
022637937X
Udg. Dato:
11 jul 2016
Størrelse i cm:
15,5 x 28,0 x 2,2
Oplagsdato:
11 jul 2016
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