Milton and the post-secular present [[electronic resource] ] : ethics, politics, terrorism / / Feisal G. Mohamed

• Autore: Mohamed Feisal G (Feisal Gharib), <1974->
• Pubblicazione: Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (194 p.)
• Disciplina: 821/.4
• Soggetto topico: Ethics in literature; Politics in literature; Terrorism in literature; Religion and politics; Postsecularism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: '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?.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Milton and the post-secular present
• ISBN: 0-8047-8073-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461352303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cultural memory in the present.