Milton and the Post-Secular Present - Ethics, Politics, Terrorism

Zusatztext "This is an impressive work, one in which a powerful intellect grapples with difficult problems and spurs us on to further thought rather than foreclosing the issues he addresses by settling into a single conclusion. Mohamed's examination of the tensions between pre/post-secular belief and modern liberalism should interest not only literary critics but also theologians, scholars of religious studies, philosophers and political theorists." Informationen zum Autor Feisal G. Mohamed is Associate Professor in the Department of English and in the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois. He is the author of In the Anteroom of Divinity: The Reformation of the Angels from Colet to Milton (2008). Klappentext "Milton and the Post-Secular Present" defines and critiques the term 'post-secular' as it appears in current thought! bringing its implications into sharp relief by comparison to the pre-secular works of John Milton. Zusammenfassung Milton and the Post-Secular Present defines and critiques the term 'post-secular' as it appears in current thought, bringing its implications into sharp relief by comparison to the pre-secular works of John Milton.

Product details

• Authors: Feisal Mohamed, Feisal G. Mohamed
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.08.2011
• EAN: 9780804776516
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-7651-6
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Cultural Memory in the Present; Cultural Memory in the Present
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies