Milton's Modernities by Feisal G Mohamed
The phrase ""early modern"" challenges readers and scholars to explore ways in which that period expands and refines contemporary views of the modern. Milton's Modernities is a collection of eleven original essays undertaking such exploration with a focus on John Milton, a poet whose prodigious energies simultaneously point to the past and future. Bristling with insights on Milton's major works, Milton's Modernities offers fresh perspectives on the thinkers central to our theorizations of modernity: from Lucretius and Spinoza, Hegel and Kant, to Benjamin and Deleuze. At the core of this volume is an embrace of the possibilities unleashed by current trends in philosophy, variously styled as the return to ethics, or metaphysics, or religion. These make all the more visible Milton's dialogues with later modernity, dialogues that promise to generate much critical discussion in early modern studies and beyond. Such approaches necessarily challenge many prevailing assumptions that have guided recent Milton criticism - assumptions about context and periodization, for instance. In this way, Milton's Modernities powerfully broadens the historical archive beyond the materiality of events and things, incorporating as well intellectual currents, hybrids, and insights.
Feisal G. Mohamed is a professor of English at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and author of Milton and the Post-Secular Present: Ethics, Politics, Terrorism and In the Anteroom of Divinity: The Reformation of the Angels from Colet to Milton.
Patrick Fadely is a graduate student in the department of English at the University of Illinois.
Patrick Fadely is a graduate student in the department of English at the University of Illinois.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780810135345 |
| ISBN 10 | 0810135345 |
| Title | Milton's Modernities |
| Author | Feisal G Mohamed |
| Series | Rethinking The Early Modern |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Northwestern University Press |
| Year published | 2017-08-30 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
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