Milton and the post-secular present

Milton and the post-secular present: ethics, politics, terrorism

by Mohamed, Feisal G., (Feisal Gharib)

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"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"--Publisher.

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  • Full title :Milton and the post-secular present : ethics, politics, terrorism / Feisal G. Mohamed.

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"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"--Publisher.

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  • Publication Date:©2011.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xii, 167 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780804780735, 0804780730
  • oclc:ocn749264354
  • LC Classification:PR3588 .M57 2011
  • Dewey Decimal:821/.4

Table of Contents

"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?

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