Milton's Modernities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Milton's Modernities write by Feisal G. Mohamed. This book was released on 2017-08-15. Milton's Modernities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The phrase “early modern” challenges readers and scholars to explore ways in which that period expands and refines contemporary views of the modern. The original essays in Milton’s Modernities undertake such exploration in the context of the work of John Milton, a poet whose prodigious energies simultaneously point to the past and future. Bristling with insights on Milton’s major works, Milton’s Modernities offers fresh perspectives on the thinkers central to our theorizations of modernity: from Lucretius and Spinoza, Hegel and Kant, to Benjamin and Deleuze. At the volume's core is an embrace of the possibilities unleashed by current trends in philosophy, variously styled as the return to ethics, or metaphysics, or religion. These make all the more visible Milton’s dialogues with later modernity, dialogues that promise to generate much critical discussion in early modern studies and beyond. Such approaches necessarily challenge many prevailing assumptions that have guided recent Milton criticism—assumptions about context and periodization, for instance. In this way, Milton’s Modernities powerfully broadens the historical archive beyond the materiality of events and things, incorporating as well intellectual currents, hybrids, and insights.
Milton's Late Poems
Milton's Late Poems - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Milton's Late Poems write by Lee Morrissey. This book was released on 2022-08-25. Milton's Late Poems available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lee Morrissey explores how Milton's major late poems narrate varying responses to modernity: adjustment, avoidance, and antagonism.
Milton and Modernity
Milton and Modernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Milton and Modernity write by M. Jordan. This book was released on 2016-01-20. Milton and Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents a theoretical and historicized reading of the production of the 'autonomous' subject in Milton's prose and in Paradise Lost. It rejects the current orthodoxy that liberal humanism is just a form of domination, and reads Milton's texts as revolutionary. Although Milton participates in the formation of discourses of sexuality, labour and the nature of reason which come to be normative, neither Milton's texts nor modernity more generally can be understood without also accepting the dynamism inherent in the belief in individual freedom.
Sovereignty: Seventeenth-Century England and the Making of the Modern Political Imaginary
Sovereignty: Seventeenth-Century England and the Making of the Modern Political Imaginary - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sovereignty: Seventeenth-Century England and the Making of the Modern Political Imaginary write by Feisal G. Mohamed. This book was released on 2020-02. Sovereignty: Seventeenth-Century England and the Making of the Modern Political Imaginary available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book argues that sovereignty is the first-order question of political order, and that seventeenth-century England provides an important case study in the roots of its modern iterations. It offers fresh readings of Thomas Hobbes, John Milton, and Andrew Marvell, as well as lesser-known figures and literary texts. In addition to political philosophy and literary studies, it also takes account of the period's legal history, exploring the exercise of the crown's feudal rights in the Court of Wards and Liveries, debates over habeas rights, and contests of various courts over jurisdiction. Theorizing sovereignty in a way that points forward to later modernity, the book also offers a sustained critique of the writings of Carl Schmitt, the twentieth century's most influential, if also most controversial, thinker on this topic.
Delirious Milton
Delirious Milton - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Delirious Milton write by Gordon Teskey. This book was released on 2009-07-01. Delirious Milton available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Composed after the collapse of his political hopes, Milton's great poems Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes are an effort to understand what it means to be a poet on the threshold of a post-theological world. The argument of Delirious Milton, inspired in part by the architectural theorist Rem Koolhaas's Delirious New York, is that Milton's creative power is drawn from a rift at the center of his consciousness over the question of creation itself. This rift forces the poet to oscillate deliriously between two incompatible perspectives, at once affirming and denying the presence of spirit in what he creates. From one perspective the act of creation is centered in God and the purpose of art is to imitate and praise the Creator. From the other perspective the act of creation is centered in the human, in the built environment of the modern world. The oscillation itself, continually affirming and negating the presence of spirit, of a force beyond the human, is what Gordon Teskey means by delirium. He concludes that the modern artist, far from being characterized by what Benjamin (after Baudelaire) called "loss of the aura," is invested, as never before, with a shamanistic spiritual power that is mediated through art.
