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9789004184961

How the West Was Won

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  • ISBN13:

    9789004184961

  • ISBN10:

    9004184961

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2010-04-01
  • Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
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Summary

How the West Was Woncontains articles in three main areas of the humanities. It focuses on various aspects of literary imagination, with essays ranging from Petrarch to Voltaire; on the canon, with essays on western history as one of shifting cult

Author Biography

Willemien Otten, Ph.D. (1989), University of Amsterdam, is Professor of the Theology and History of Christianity at the University of Chicago. She has published widely on western medieval and early Christian theology, including the continuity of (Neo) Platonic themes. Currently she is working on a comparison between Johannes Scottus Eriugena and Ralph Waldo Emerson about the role of nature and the self.
Arjo Vanderjagt, Ph.D. (1981), University of Groningen, is Professor emeritus of the History of Ideas of the University of Groningen. He has published on Anselm of Canterbury, the literary culture and political thought of the fifteenth-century Burgundian court, and on the Christian humanism of the northern Low Countries.
Hent de Vries, Ph.D. (1989), University of Leiden, holds the Russ Family Chair in the Humanities and is Professor of Philosophy at The Johns Hopkins University and the Director of The Humanities Center. Among his many books are Minimal Theologies: Critiques of Secular Reason in Adorno and Levinas (2005) and Religion and Violence: Philosophical Perspectives from Kant to Derrida (2002). Most recently, he edited Religion Beyond a Concept (2008).

Table of Contents

Prefacep. ix
Publications of Burcht Prangerp. xv
Notes on Contributorsp. xxi
Literary Imagination
"Movesi un vecchierel canuto et bianco...": Notes on a Sonnet of Petrarchp. 3
Moments of Indecision, Sovereign Possibilities: Notes on the Tableau Vivantp. 17
History and the Vertical Canon: Calvin's Institutes and Beckettp. 39
Christ's Case and John Donne, "Seeing through his wounds": The Stigma of Martyrdom Transfiguredp. 55
Playing with History: The Satirical Portrayal of the Medieval Papacy on an Eighteenth-Century Deck of Playing Cardsp. 65
From East to West: Jansenists, Orientalists, and the Eucharistic Controversyp. 83
Labouring in Reason's Vineyard: Voltaire and the Allegory of Enlightenmentp. 101
The Canon
The Search for the Canon and the Problem of Body and Soulp. 119
Music at the Limits: Edward Said's Musical Elaborationsp. 127
The Canonisation of the Medieval Past: England and the Continent Comparedp. 147
Scholarship of Literature and Life: Leopold Zunz and the Invention of Jewish Culturep. 165
Censorship and Canon: A Note on Some Medieval Works and Authorsp. 175
Does the Canon Need Converting? A Meditation on Augustine's Soliloquies, Eriugena's Periphyseon, and the Dialogue with the Religious Pastp. 195
Between Pedagogy and Democracy: On Canons and Aversion to Conformity in Ordinary Language Philosophyp. 225
On the Significance of Disagreement: Stanley Cavell and Ordinary Language Philosophyp. 239
Fast Forward, or: The Theologico-Political Event in Quick Motion (Miracles, Media, and Multitudes in St. Augustine)p. 255
The Christian Middle Ages
Tangere autem corde, hoc est credere: Augustine on 'Touching' the Numinousp. 283
The Fame of Fake, Dionysius the Areopagite: Fabrication, Falsification, and the 'Cloud of Unknowing'p. 301
Two Female Apostolic Mystics: Catherine of Siena and Madame Jeanne Guyonp. 313
De obitu Valentiniani: Abelard, Bernard of Clairvaux, and the Canonization of Ambrose of Milan on Baptism by Desirep. 329
The 'Whole Abelard' and the Availability of Languagep. 349
Tempus longum ... locus asper ...: Chiaroscuro in Hugh of Saint-Victorp. 377
Obedience Simple and True: Anselm of Canterbury on How to Defeat the Devilp. 393
The Monastic Challenge: Remarksp. 409
Index of Personal Namesp. 415
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