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基本説明
Provides novel readings of the Puritan antitheartical controversy, taking the Puritan position seriously. Includes a comparative history of Byzantine debates over idolatry that will be completely new to most sholars in early modern studies.
Full Description
Postmodern society seems incapable of elaborating an ethical critique of the market economy. Early modern society showed no such reticence. Between 1580 and 1680, Aristotelian teleology was replaced as the dominant mode of philosophy in England by Baconian empiricism. This was a process with implications for every sphere of life: for politics and theology, economics and ethics, aesthetics and sexuality. Through nuanced and original readings of Shakespeare, Herbert, Donne, Milton, Traherne, and Bunyan, David Hawkes sheds light on the antitheatrical controversy, and early modern debates over idolatry and value and trade. Hawkes argues that the people of Renaissance England believed that the decline of telos resulted in a reified, fetishistic mode of consciousness which manifests itself in such phenomena as religious idolatry, commodity fetish, and carnal sensuality. He suggests that the resulting early modern critique of the market economy has much to offer postmodern society.
Contents
Iconoclasm and Political Economy The Theological Critique of the Market The Anatomy of 'Abuse': Idolatry and Commodity Fetishism in the Antitheatrical Controversy Sodomy and Usury in Shakespeare's Sonnets Typology and Objectification in Herbert's The Temple John Donne: Alchemy and the Decline of Teleology The Politics of Character in Milton's Divorce Pamphlets Thomas Traherne: A Critique of Political Economy Commodification and Allegory in John Bunyan's Fiction
