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  1. Unknowing Fanaticism :
    Reformation Literatures of Self-Annihilation /
    Autor*in: Lerner, Ross,
    Erschienen: [2019]; ©2019
    Verlag:  Fordham University Press,, New York, NY :

    We may think we know what defines religious fanaticism: violent action undertaken with dogmatic certainty. But the term fanatic, from the European Reformation to today, has never been a stable one. Then and now it has been reductively defined to... mehr

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    We may think we know what defines religious fanaticism: violent action undertaken with dogmatic certainty. But the term fanatic, from the European Reformation to today, has never been a stable one. Then and now it has been reductively defined to justify state violence and to delegitimize alternative sources of authority. Unknowing Fanaticism rejects the simplified binary of fanatical religion and rational politics, turning to Renaissance literature to demonstrate that fanaticism was integral to how both modern politics and poetics developed, from the German Peasants’ Revolt to the English Civil War.The book traces two entangled approaches to fanaticism in this long Reformation moment: the targeting of it as an extreme political threat and the engagement with it as a deep epistemological and poetic problem. In the first, thinkers of modernity from Martin Luther to Thomas Hobbes and John Locke positioned themselves against fanaticism to pathologize rebellion and abet theological and political control. In the second, which arose alongside and often in response to the first, the poets of fanaticism investigated the link between fanatical self-annihilation—the process by which one could become a vessel for divine violence—and the practices of writing poetry. Edmund Spenser, John Donne, and John Milton recognized in the fanatic’s claim to be a passive instrument of God their own incapacity to know and depict the origins of fanaticism. Yet this crisis of unknowing was a productive one. It led these writers to experiment with poetic techniques that would allow them to address fanaticism’s tendency to unsettle the boundaries between human and divine agency and between individual and collective bodies. These poets demand a new critical method, which this book attempts to model: a historically-minded and politicized formalism that can attend to the complexity of the poetic encounter with fanaticism.

     
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    Quelle: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Sprache: Englisch
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780823283897
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    Schlagworte: European literature; Fanaticism in literature.; Politics and literature.; Reformation; Renaissance.; Donne.; Fanaticism.; Hobbes.; Milton.; Spenser.; new formalism.; poetics.; political theology.; religion.; terrorism.; LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance.
    Umfang: 1 online resource (224 p.)
  2. Lessons in Secular Criticism /
    Autor*in: Gourgouris, Stathis,
    Erschienen: [2013]; ©2013
    Verlag:  Fordham University Press,, New York, NY :

    Secular criticism is a term invented by Edward Said to denote not a theory but a practice that counters the tendency of much modern thinking to reach for a transcendentalist comfort zone, the very space philosophy wrested away from religion in the... mehr

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    Secular criticism is a term invented by Edward Said to denote not a theory but a practice that counters the tendency of much modern thinking to reach for a transcendentalist comfort zone, the very space philosophy wrested away from religion in the name of modernity. Using this notion as a compass, this book reconfigures recent secularism debates on an entirely different basis, by showing (1) how the secular imagination is closely linked to society’s radical poiesis, its capacity to imagine and create unprecedented forms of worldly existence; and (2) how the space of the secular animates the desire for a radical democratic politics that overturns inherited modes of subjugation, whether religious or secularist.Gourgouris’s point is to disrupt the co-dependent relation between the religious and the secular—hence, his rejection of fashionable languages of postsecularism—in order to engage in a double critique of heteronomous politics of all kinds. For him, secular criticism is a form of political being: critical, antifoundational, disobedient, anarchic, yet not negative for negation’s sake but creative of new forms of collective reflection, interrogation, and action that alter not only the current terrain of dominant politics but also the very self-conceptualization of what it means to be human.Written in a free and combative style and given both to close readings of texts and to gazing off into the broad horizon, these essays cover a range of issues—historical and philosophical, archaic and contemporary, literary and political—that ultimately converge in the significance of contemporary radical politics: the assembly movements we have seen in various parts of the world in recent years. The secular imagination demands a radical pedagogy and unlearning a great many established thought patterns. Its most important dimension is not battling religion per se but dismantling theological politics of sovereignty in favor of radical conditions for social autonomy.

     
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    Quelle: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Sprache: Englisch
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    ISBN: 9780823254873
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    Schriftenreihe: Thinking Out Loud
    Schlagworte: Criticism.; Literature; Religion and literature.; Secularism in literature.; Sovereignty.; autonomy.; critique.; democracy.; poetics.; political theology.; radical politics.; secularism.; RELIGION / General.
    Umfang: 1 online resource (216 p.)
  3. The Underside of Politics :
    Global Fictions in the Fog of the Cold War /
    Autor*in: Cucu, Sorin Radu,
    Erschienen: [2013]; ©2013
    Verlag:  Fordham University Press,, New York, NY :

    This book argues that during the Cold War modern political imagination was held captive by the split between two visions of universality—freedom in the West versus social justice in the East—and by a culture of secrecy that tied national identity to... mehr

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    This book argues that during the Cold War modern political imagination was held captive by the split between two visions of universality—freedom in the West versus social justice in the East—and by a culture of secrecy that tied national identity to national security. Examining post- 1945 American and Eastern European interpretive novels in dialogue with each other and with postfoundational democratic theory, The Underside of Politics brings to light the ideas, forces, and circumstances that shattered modernity’s promises (such as secularization, autonomy, and rights) on both sides of the Iron Curtain. In this context, literary fictions by Kundera and Roth, Popescu and Coover, Kiš and DeLillo become global as they reveal the trials of popular sovereignty in the “fog of the Cold War” and trace the elements around which its world discourse or global picture is constructed: the atom bomb, Stalinist show trials, anticommunist propaganda, totalitarian terror, secret military operations, and political targeting.

     
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  4. Unknowing Fanaticism :
    Reformation Literatures of Self-Annihilation /
    Autor*in: Lerner, Ross,
    Erschienen: [2019]; ©2019
    Verlag:  Fordham University Press,, New York, NY :

    We may think we know what defines religious fanaticism: violent action undertaken with dogmatic certainty. But the term fanatic, from the European Reformation to today, has never been a stable one. Then and now it has been reductively defined to... mehr

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    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Zentralbibliothek
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    Standort:
    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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    We may think we know what defines religious fanaticism: violent action undertaken with dogmatic certainty. But the term fanatic, from the European Reformation to today, has never been a stable one. Then and now it has been reductively defined to justify state violence and to delegitimize alternative sources of authority. Unknowing Fanaticism rejects the simplified binary of fanatical religion and rational politics, turning to Renaissance literature to demonstrate that fanaticism was integral to how both modern politics and poetics developed, from the German Peasants’ Revolt to the English Civil War. The book traces two entangled approaches to fanaticism in this long Reformation moment: the targeting of it as an extreme political threat and the engagement with it as a deep epistemological and poetic problem. In the first, thinkers of modernity from Martin Luther to Thomas Hobbes and John Locke positioned themselves against fanaticism to pathologize rebellion and abet theological and political control. In the second, which arose alongside and often in response to the first, the poets of fanaticism investigated the link between fanatical self-annihilation—the process by which one could become a vessel for divine violence—and the practices of writing poetry. Edmund Spenser, John Donne, and John Milton recognized in the fanatic’s claim to be a passive instrument of God their own incapacity to know and depict the origins of fanaticism. Yet this crisis of unknowing was a productive one. It led these writers to experiment with poetic techniques that would allow them to address fanaticism’s tendency to unsettle the boundaries between human and divine agency and between individual and collective bodies. These poets demand a new critical method, which this book attempts to model: a historically-minded and politicized formalism that can attend to the complexity of the poetic encounter with fanaticism.

     
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    Quelle: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0-8232-8633-9; 0-8232-8388-7; 0-8232-8389-5
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    Auflage/Ausgabe: First edition.
    Schriftenreihe: Fordham scholarship online
    Schlagworte: Renaissance.; Reformation; Politics and literature.; Fanaticism in literature.; European literature
    Weitere Schlagworte: Donne.; Fanaticism.; Hobbes.; Milton.; Spenser.; new formalism.; poetics.; political theology.; religion.; terrorism.
    Umfang: 1 online resource (241 pages)
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    This edition previously issued in print: 2019.

    Includes bibliographical references and index.
  5. Love against Substitution :
    Seventeenth-Century English Literature and the Meaning of Marriage /
    Autor*in: Song, Eric B.,
    Erschienen: [2022]; ©2022
    Verlag:  Stanford University Press,, Stanford, CA :

    Are we unique as individuals, or are we replaceable? Seventeenth-century English literature pursues these questions through depictions of marriage. The writings studied in this book elevate a love between two individuals who deem each other to be... mehr

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    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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    Are we unique as individuals, or are we replaceable? Seventeenth-century English literature pursues these questions through depictions of marriage. The writings studied in this book elevate a love between two individuals who deem each other to be unique to the point of being irreplaceable, and this vocabulary allows writers to put affective pressure on the meaning of marriage as Pauline theology defines it. Stubbornly individual, love threatens to short-circuit marriage's function in directing intimate feelings toward a communal experience of Christ's love. The literary project of testing the meaning of marriage proved to be urgent work throughout the seventeenth century. Monarchy itself was put on trial in this century, and so was the usefulness of marriage in linking Christian belief with the legitimacy of hereditary succession. Starting at the end of the sixteenth century with Edmund Spenser, and then exploring works by William Shakespeare, William Davenant, John Milton, Lucy Hutchinson, and Aphra Behn, Eric Song offers a new account of how notions of unique personhood became embedded in a literary way of thinking and feeling about marriage.

     
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    Sprache: Englisch
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781503631410
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    Schriftenreihe: Cultural Memory in the Present
    Schlagworte: English literature; English literature; Love in literature.; Marriage in literature.; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
    Weitere Schlagworte: affect.; drama.; epic.; individuality.; poetry.; political theology.; romance.; sacrifice.; typology.
    Umfang: 1 online resource (336 p.)