| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 167 pages). |
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text file |
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Cultural memory in the present
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Cultural memory in the present.
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| Summary |
"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"--Publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
"Not but by the spirit understood" : Milton's plain style and present-day Messianism -- Areopagitica and the ethics of reading -- Liberty before and after liberalism : Milton's politics and the post-secular state -- Samson, the peacemaker : enlightened slaughter in Samson Agonistes -- Can the suicide bomber speak? |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Milton, John, 1608-1674. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Ethics in literature.
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Ethics in literature. |
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Politics in literature.
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Politics in literature. |
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Postsecularism.
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Postsecularism. |
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Religion and politics.
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Religion and politics. |
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Terrorism in literature.
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Terrorism in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mohamed, Feisal G. (Feisal Gharib), 1974- Milton and the post-secular present. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2011], ©2011 9780804776509 (DLC) 2011006590 (OCoLC)704120827 |
| ISBN |
9780804780735 (electronic book) |
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0804780730 (electronic book) |
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9780804776509 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0804776504 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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