The Legitimacy of the Middle Ages

On the Unwritten History of Theory
Herausgeber: Cole, Andrew; Smith, D Vance

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Produktbeschreibung

Offers an assessment of the place of the Middle Ages in critical theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9780822346449
• ISBN-10: 0822346443
• Artikelnr.: 28036074

Autorenporträt

Andrew Cole is Associate Professor of English at Princeton University. He is the author of Literature and Heresy in the Age of Chaucer. D. Vance Smith is Professor of English at Princeton University. He is the author of Arts of Possession: The Middle English Household Imaginary and The Book of the Incipit: Beginnings in the Fourteenth Century.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Outside Modernity / Andrew Cole and D. Vance Smith 1
Theological Modernities
The Sense of an Epoch: Periodization, Sovereignty, and the Limits of
Secularization / Kathleen Davis 39
The Sacrament of the Fetish, the Miracle of the Commodity: Hegel and Marx /
Andrew Cole 70
Empire, Apocalypse, and the 9/11 Premodern / Bruce Holsinger 94
Response: More Than We Bargained For / Michael Hardt 119
Scholastic Modernities
We Have Never Been Schreber: Paranoia, Medieval, and Modern / Erin Labbie
and Michael Uebel 127
Medieval Studies, Historicity, and Heidegger's Early Phenomenology / Ethan
Knapp 159
Medieval Currencies: Nominalism and Art / C. D. Blanton 194
Response: Medusa's Gaze / Jed Rasula 233
Afterword. On the Medieval / Fredric Jameson 243
Bibliography 247
Contributors 269
Index 271