Legitimacy of the Middle Ages On the Unwritten History of Theory

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Cole is Associate Professor of English at Princeton University. He is the author of Literature and Heresy in the Age of Chaucer.D. Vance Smith is Professor of English at Princeton University. He is the author of Arts of Possession: The Middle English Household Imaginary and The Book of the Incipit: Beginnings in the Fourteenth Century. Klappentext Offers an assessment of the place of the Middle Ages in critical theory. Zusammenfassung A collection of theoretical essays arguing that theorists of modernity must reckon with the medieval! which is not! as some have asserted! completely separate or different from the modern. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Outside Modernity / Andrew Cole and D. Vance Smith 1 Theological Modernities The Sense of an Epoch: Periodization, Sovereignty, and the Limits of Secularization / Kathleen Davis 39 The Sacrament of the Fetish, the Miracle of the Commodity: Hegel and Marx / Andrew Cole 70 Empire, Apocalypse, and the 9/11 Premodern / Bruce Holsinger 94 Response: More Than We Bargained For / Michael Hardt 119 Scholastic Modernities We Have Never Been Schreber: Paranoia, Medieval, and Modern / Erin Labbie and Michael Uebel 127 Medieval Studies, Historicity, and Heidegger's Early Phenomenology / Ethan Knapp 159 Medieval Currencies: Nominalism and Art / C. D. Blanton 194 Response: Medusa's Gaze / Jed Rasula 233 Afterword. On the Medieval / Fredric Jameson 243 Bibliography 247 Contributors 269 Index 271

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: D Vance Smith (Editore), D. Vance Smith (Editore), Andrew Cole (Editore)
• Autori: Andrew Smith Cole
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 08.02.2010
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Medioevo; Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: dall'antichità ai giorni nostri
• EAN: 9780822346524
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4652-4
• Numero di pagine: 288
• Serie: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention; Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention