Open Subjects: English Renaissance Republicans, Modern Selfhoods and the Virtue of Vulnerability

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, Shakes...

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1. Verfasser: Kuzner, James (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2022]
Schriftenreihe:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture : ECSRC
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Zusammenfassung: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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Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (232 pages)
ISBN:9780748647101
DOI:10.1515/9780748647101

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