Cole / Smith / Fish The Legitimacy of the Middle Ages

On the Unwritten History of Theory
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9254-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 287 Seiten

Reihe: Post-Contemporary Interventions

A collection of theoretical essays arguing that theorists of modernity must reckon with the medieval, which is not, as some have asserted, completely separate or different from the modern.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cole, Andrew

Smith, D. Vance

Fish, Stanley

Jameson, Fredric

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.