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Milton and the post-secular present
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ISBN: 0804780730 9780804780735 9780804776509 0804776504 9780804776516 0804776512 Year: 2011 Publisher: Stanford, Calif. Stanford University Press

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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


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In the anteroom of divinity : the reformation of the angels from Colet to Milton
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ISBN: 1442688327 9781442688322 9780802097927 0802097928 9781442692619 1442692618 Year: 2008 Publisher: Toronto, Ont. University of Toronto Press


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Sovereignty : seventeenth-century England and the making of the modern political imaginary
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ISBN: 9780198852131 Year: 2020 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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Liberty before and after liberalism: Milton's shifting politics and the current crisis in liberal theory.p.
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Milton's modernities : poetry, philosophy, and history from the seventeenth century to the present
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ISBN: 0810135353 Year: 2017 Publisher: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press,

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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.


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Milton and questions of history : essays by Canadians past and present
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ISBN: 9781442643925 1442643927 9781442698178 1442698179 Year: 2012 Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London University of Toronto Press

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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.


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Rethinking the Early Modern
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Year: 2013 Publisher: Evanston Northwestern University Press

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A New Deal for the Humanities
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ISBN: 0813573262 9780813573267 9780813573243 0813573246 9780813573236 0813573238 9780813573250 0813573254 Year: 2015 Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ

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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.

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