03695nam 2200661Ia 450 991045942700332120200520144314.01-282-73846-197866127384630-226-51984-810.7208/9780226519845(CKB)2670000000034969(EBL)574763(OCoLC)658200303(SSID)ssj0000417901(PQKBManifestationID)11270181(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000417901(PQKBWorkID)10370694(PQKB)10349402(MiAaPQ)EBC574763(DE-B1597)525057(OCoLC)1135586056(DE-B1597)9780226519845(Au-PeEL)EBL574763(CaPaEBR)ebr10409370(CaONFJC)MIL273846(EXLCZ)99267000000003496920010215d2001 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFor fear of the fire[electronic resource] Joan of Arc and the limits of subjectivity /Françoise MeltzerChicago University of Chicago Press20011 online resource (269 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-51981-3 0-226-51982-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: THE SNOWS OF YESTERYEAR -- CHAPTER ONE. THE BODY REVISITED -- CHAPTER TWO. THE DISCOURSE OF VIRGINITY: A FLIGHT BEFORE LIGHT -- CHAPTER THREE. PROFESSIONS OF VIRGINITY -- CHAPTER FOUR. RESPONSIO MORTIFERA: THE VOICE OF THE MAID -- CHAPTER FIVE. FEAR OF FIRE: DEATH AND THE IMPOSSIBLE -- CHAPTER SIX. FATHER, CAN'T YOU SEE I'M BURNING? -- INDEX OF PROPER NAMESWhy are contemporary secular theorists so frequently drawn to saints, martyrs, and questions of religion? Why has Joan of Arc fascinated some of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century? In a book that faces crucial issues in both critical and feminist inquiry, Françoise Meltzer uses the story of Joan as a guide for reading the postmodern nostalgia for a body that is intact and transparent. She argues that critics who place excessive emphasis on opposition and difference remain blind to their nostalgia for the pre-Cartesian idea that the body and mind are the same. Engaging a number of theorists, and alternating between Joan's historical and cultural context, Meltzer also explores the ways in which postmodern thinkers question subjectivity. She argues that the way masculine subjects imagine Joan betrays their fear of death and necessitates the role of women as cultural others: enigmatic, mysterious, dark, and impossible. As such, Joan serves as a useful model of the limits and risks of subjectivity. For Meltzer, she is both the first modern and the last medieval figure. From the ecclesial jury that burned her, to the theorists of today who deny their attraction to the supernatural, the philosophical assumptions that inform Joan's story, as Meltzer ultimately shows, have changed very little.Christian women saintsFranceBiographyVirginityFranceHistoryCharles VII, 1422-1461Electronic books.Christian women saintsVirginity.944/.026/092BMeltzer Françoise251705MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459427003321For fear of the fire1940986UNINA