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Our post-secular present, argues Feisal Mohamed, has much to learn from our pre-secular past. Through a consideration of poet and polemicist John Milton, this book explores current post-secularity, an emerging category that it seeks to clarify and critique. It examines ethical and political engagement grounded in belief, with particular reference to the thought of Alain Badiou, Jacques Derrida, Jürgen Habermas, and Gayatri C. Spivak. Taken to an extreme, such engagement produces the cult of the suicide bomber. But the suicide bomber has also served as a convenient bogey for those wishing
Ethics in literature. --- Politics in literature. --- Terrorism in literature. --- Religion and politics. --- Postsecularism. --- Post-secularism --- Post-secularity --- Philosophy, Modern --- Religion --- Secularism --- Political science --- Politics, Practical --- Politics and religion --- Religions --- Political science in literature --- Religious aspects --- Political aspects --- Milton, John, --- Milṭan, Jān, --- Milʹton, Dzhon, --- Милтон, Джон, --- Miltūn, Zhūn, --- Miltonus, Joannes, --- J. M. --- M., J. --- Milʹton, Īoann, --- Milton, Gioanni, --- Milton, Giovanni, --- מילטאן, יאהאן --- מילטאן, יוחנן --- מילטון, ג׳והן --- מלטן, יוחנן --- Criticism and interpretation.
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In the Anteroom of Divinity focuses on the persistence of Pseudo-Dionysian angelology in England's early modern period.
English literature --- Angels in literature. --- Angels --- Christianity and literature --- Reformation --- English Reformation --- Angelology --- Cherubim --- Cherubs (Spirits) --- Divine messengers --- Seraphim --- Spirits --- History and criticism. --- History of doctrines. --- History --- Pseudo-Dionysius, --- pseudo-Dionysius Areopagita --- Dionysius Areopagita --- Denys l'Aréopagite --- Denys the Areopagite --- Dionysius de Areopagiet --- Dionysius --- Influence. --- Thematology --- Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- England. --- Angleterre --- Anglii͡ --- Anglija --- Engeland --- Inghilterra --- Inglaterra --- Dionigi, --- Dionisiĭ, --- Dionisio, --- Dionysios, --- Dionysius Areopagita, --- Dionysius Mysticus --- Dionysius, --- Pseudo-Denys, --- Pseudo-Dionigi, --- Pseudo-Dionisiĭ, --- Pseudo Dionisio, --- Psevdo-Dionise, --- Psevdo-Dionisii︠a︡,
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Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Political systems --- Theory of the state --- anno 1600-1699 --- England
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The phrase “early modern” challenges readers and scholars to explore ways in which that period expands and refines contemporary views of the modern. Milton’s Modernities is a collection of eleven original essays undertaking such exploration with a focus on 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 core of this volume 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.
English literature --- History and criticism. --- Milton, John, --- Criticism and interpretation.
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The volume opens with a selection of seminal articles by noted scholars including Northrop Frye, Hugh McCallum, Douglas Bush, Ernest Sirluck, and A.S.P. Woodhouse.
Historical criticism (Literature) --- Politics and literature --- Political poetry, English --- New historicism. --- New Criticism. --- Criticism --- Literature and history --- History --- History and criticism. --- Milton, John, --- Milṭan, Jān, --- Milʹton, Dzhon, --- Милтон, Джон, --- Miltūn, Zhūn, --- Miltonus, Joannes, --- J. M. --- M., J. --- Milʹton, Īoann, --- Milton, Gioanni, --- Milton, Giovanni, --- מילטאן, יאהאן --- מילטאן, יוחנן --- מילטון, ג׳והן --- מלטן, יוחנן --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Political and social views.
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Many in higher education fear that the humanities are facing a crisis. But even if the rhetoric about "crisis" is overblown, humanities departments do face increasing pressure from administrators, politicians, parents, and students. In A New Deal for the Humanities, Gordon Hutner and Feisal G. Mohamed bring together twelve prominent scholars who address the history, the present state, and the future direction of the humanities. These scholars keep the focus on public higher education, for it is in our state schools that the liberal arts are taught to the greatest numbers and where their neglect would be most damaging for the nation. The contributors offer spirited and thought-provoking debates on a diverse range of topics. For instance, they deplore the push by administrations to narrow learning into quantifiable outcomes as well as the demands of state governments for more practical, usable training. Indeed, for those who suggest that a college education should be "practical"-that it should lean toward the sciences and engineering, where the high-paying jobs are-this book points out that while a few nations produce as many technicians as the United States does, America is still renowned worldwide for its innovation and creativity, skills taught most effectively in the humanities. Most importantly, the essays in this collection examine ways to make the humanities even more effective, such as offering a broader array of options than the traditional major/minor scheme, options that combine a student's professional and intellectual interests, like the new medical humanities programs. A democracy can only be as energetic as the minds of its citizens, and the questions fundamental to the humanities are also fundamental to a thoughtful life. A New Deal for the Humanities takes an intrepid step in making the humanities-and our citizens-even stronger in the future.
Public universities and colleges --- Education, Humanistic --- Humanities --- Universities and colleges --- Curricula --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- Humanities Study and teaching (Higher) --- Humanities United States --- United States --- higher education, public policy, cultural policy, education policy, education reform, political science, humanities, cultural studies, education, american studies, literature, philosophy, ancient language, modern language, religion, humanist, global studies, art, school administration, government, anthropology, classics, history, geography, linguistics, law, politics, perfoming arts, public institutions, university, college.
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