Future of Illusion - Political Theology and Early Modern Texts

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.

About the author

Victoria Kahn is the Katharine Bixby Hotchkis Chair in English and professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and lives in Berkeley. She is the author of "Rhetoric, Prudence, and Skepticism in the Renaissance";" Machiavellian Rhetoric: From the Counter-Reformation to Milton"; and "Wayward Contracts: The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640-1674."

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Victoria Kahn, Kahn Victoria
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.01.2014
• EAN: 9780226083872
• ISBN: 978-0-226-08387-2
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, Religion & politics, Literary studies: general, Religion and Politics, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800