TY - BOOK ID - 137684887 TI - Political theology and early modernity AU - Hammill, Graham L AU - Lupton, Julia Reinhard AU - Balibar, Etienne PY - 2012 SN - 1283542188 9786613854636 0226314995 9780226314990 9781283542180 6613854638 9780226314976 0226314979 9780226314983 0226314987 PB - Chicago The University of Chicago Press DB - UniCat KW - Political theology KW - History. KW - Historiography. KW - political theology, modernity, medieval, iconography, kinship, sacred, holiness, divinity, sovereignty, hobbes, spinoza, shakespeare, machiavelli, milton, schmitt, strauss, benjamin, arendt, secularism, religion, philosophy, christianity, spirituality, nonfiction, collectivism, community, society, politics, history, renaissance, baroque, literature, postmodernity, hamlet or hecuba, corpus mysticum, judaism, kantorowicz, islam, justice, violence, war, marriage, gender, queen elizabeth. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137684887 AB - Political theology is a distinctly modern problem, one that takes shape in some of the most important theoretical writings of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. But its origins stem from the early modern period, in medieval iconographies of sacred kinship and the critique of traditional sovereignty mounted by Hobbes and Spinoza. In this book, Graham Hammill and Julia Reinhard Lupton assemble established and emerging scholars in early modern studies to examine the role played by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature and thought in modern conceptions of political theology. Political Theology and Early Modernity explores texts by Shakespeare, Machiavelli, Milton, and others that have served as points of departure for such thinkers as Schmitt, Strauss, Benjamin, and Arendt. Written from a spectrum of positions ranging from renewed defenses of secularism to attempts to reconceive the religious character of collective life and literary experience, these essays probe moments of productive conflict, disavowal, and entanglement in politics and religion as they pass between early modern and modern scenes of thought. This stimulating collection is the first to answer not only how Renaissance and baroque literature help explain the persistence of political theology in modernity and postmodernity, but also how the reemergence of political theology as an intellectual and political problem deepens our understanding of the early modern period. ER -