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Open Subjects : English Renaissance Republicans, Modern Selfhoods and the Virtue of Vulnerability / James Kuzner.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture : ECSRCPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748642533
  • 9780748647101
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.9003
LOC classification:
  • PR428.R48
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Introduction: Vulnerable Crests of Renaissance Selves -- 1 Legacies of Republicanism, Histories of the Self -- 2 ‘Without Respect of Utility’: Precarious Life and the Politics of Edmund Spenser’s Legend of Friendship -- 3 Unbuilding the City: Coriolanus, Titus Andronicus and the Forms of Openness -- 4 ‘That Transubstantiall solacisme’: Andrew Marvell, Linguistic Vulnerability and the Space of the Subject -- 5 Habermas Goes to Hell: Pleasure, Public Reason and the Republicanism of Paradise Lost -- Epilogue: The Futures of Open Subjects -- Index
Summary: Studies of the republican legacy have proliferated in recent years, always to argue for a polity that cultivates the virtues, protections, and entitlements which foster the self's ability to simulate an invulnerable existence. James Kuzner's original new study of writing by Spenser, Shakespeare, Marvell and Milton is the first to present a genealogy for the modern self in which its republican origins can be understood far more radically. In doing so, the study is also the first to draw radical and republican thought into sustained conversation, and to locate a republic for which vulnerability is, unexpectedly, as much what community has to offer as it is what community guards against. At a time when the drive to safeguard citizens has gathered enough momentum to justify almost any state action, Open Subjects questions whether vulnerability is the evil we so often believe it to be.Key featuresFirst study to explore how early modern republican and contemporary radical thought connect with and complement each otherTraces the presence of English republicanism from the late sixteenth century to the late seventeenthAnalyses Renaissance literary texts in the context of classical, early modern, and contemporary political thought to add to how we think about selfhood in the presentOffers illuminating new readings of the place that English Renaissance figures occupy in histories of friendship, the public sphere, and selfhood more generally
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Introduction: Vulnerable Crests of Renaissance Selves -- 1 Legacies of Republicanism, Histories of the Self -- 2 ‘Without Respect of Utility’: Precarious Life and the Politics of Edmund Spenser’s Legend of Friendship -- 3 Unbuilding the City: Coriolanus, Titus Andronicus and the Forms of Openness -- 4 ‘That Transubstantiall solacisme’: Andrew Marvell, Linguistic Vulnerability and the Space of the Subject -- 5 Habermas Goes to Hell: Pleasure, Public Reason and the Republicanism of Paradise Lost -- Epilogue: The Futures of Open Subjects -- Index

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Studies of the republican legacy have proliferated in recent years, always to argue for a polity that cultivates the virtues, protections, and entitlements which foster the self's ability to simulate an invulnerable existence. James Kuzner's original new study of writing by Spenser, Shakespeare, Marvell and Milton is the first to present a genealogy for the modern self in which its republican origins can be understood far more radically. In doing so, the study is also the first to draw radical and republican thought into sustained conversation, and to locate a republic for which vulnerability is, unexpectedly, as much what community has to offer as it is what community guards against. At a time when the drive to safeguard citizens has gathered enough momentum to justify almost any state action, Open Subjects questions whether vulnerability is the evil we so often believe it to be.Key featuresFirst study to explore how early modern republican and contemporary radical thought connect with and complement each otherTraces the presence of English republicanism from the late sixteenth century to the late seventeenthAnalyses Renaissance literary texts in the context of classical, early modern, and contemporary political thought to add to how we think about selfhood in the presentOffers illuminating new readings of the place that English Renaissance figures occupy in histories of friendship, the public sphere, and selfhood more generally

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In English.

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