Doyeeta Majumder
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781786941688
- eISBN:
- 9781789623260
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781786941688.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
This book examines the fraught relationship between the sixteenth-century formulations of the theories of sovereign violence, tyranny and usurpation and the manifestations of these ideas on the ...
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This book examines the fraught relationship between the sixteenth-century formulations of the theories of sovereign violence, tyranny and usurpation and the manifestations of these ideas on the contemporary English stage. It will attempt to trace an evolution of the poetics of English and Scottish political drama through the early, middle, and late decades of the sixteenth-century in conjunction with developments in the political thought of the century, linking theatre and politics through the representations of the problematic figure of the usurper or, in Machiavellian terms, the ‘New Prince’. While the early Tudor morality plays are concerned with the legitimate monarch who becomes a tyrant, the later historical and tragic drama of the century foregrounds the figure of the illegitimate monarch who is a tyrant by default. On the one hand the sudden proliferation of usurpation plots in Elizabethan drama and the transition from the legitimate tyrant to the usurper tyrant is linked to the dramaturgical shift from the allegorical morality play tradition to later history plays and tragedies, and on the other it is reflective of a poetic turn in political thought which impelled political writers to conceive of the state and sovereignty as a product of human ‘poiesis’, independent of transcendental legitimization. The poetics of political drama and the emergence of the idea of ‘poiesis’ in the political context merge in the figure of the nuove principe: the prince without dynastic claims who creates his sovereignty by dint of his own ‘virtu’ and through an act of law-making violence.Less
This book examines the fraught relationship between the sixteenth-century formulations of the theories of sovereign violence, tyranny and usurpation and the manifestations of these ideas on the contemporary English stage. It will attempt to trace an evolution of the poetics of English and Scottish political drama through the early, middle, and late decades of the sixteenth-century in conjunction with developments in the political thought of the century, linking theatre and politics through the representations of the problematic figure of the usurper or, in Machiavellian terms, the ‘New Prince’. While the early Tudor morality plays are concerned with the legitimate monarch who becomes a tyrant, the later historical and tragic drama of the century foregrounds the figure of the illegitimate monarch who is a tyrant by default. On the one hand the sudden proliferation of usurpation plots in Elizabethan drama and the transition from the legitimate tyrant to the usurper tyrant is linked to the dramaturgical shift from the allegorical morality play tradition to later history plays and tragedies, and on the other it is reflective of a poetic turn in political thought which impelled political writers to conceive of the state and sovereignty as a product of human ‘poiesis’, independent of transcendental legitimization. The poetics of political drama and the emergence of the idea of ‘poiesis’ in the political context merge in the figure of the nuove principe: the prince without dynastic claims who creates his sovereignty by dint of his own ‘virtu’ and through an act of law-making violence.
Stathis Gourgouris
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780823253784
- eISBN:
- 9780823261215
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823253784.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Philosophy of Religion
This book reconfigures recent secularism debates, by showing (1) how the secular imagination is closely linked to society’s radical poiesis, its capacity to imagine and create unprecedented forms of ...
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This book reconfigures recent secularism debates, by showing (1) how the secular imagination is closely linked to society’s radical poiesis, its capacity to imagine and create unprecedented forms of worldly existence; and (2) how the space of the secular animates the desire for a radical democratic politics that overturns inherited modes of subjugation, whether religious or secularist. For Gourgouris, secular criticism is a form of political being: critical, antifoundational, disobedient, anarchic, yet not negative for negation’s sake but creative of new forms of collective reflection, interrogation, and action that alter not only the current terrain of dominant politics but also the very self-conceptualization of what it means to be human.Less
This book reconfigures recent secularism debates, by showing (1) how the secular imagination is closely linked to society’s radical poiesis, its capacity to imagine and create unprecedented forms of worldly existence; and (2) how the space of the secular animates the desire for a radical democratic politics that overturns inherited modes of subjugation, whether religious or secularist. For Gourgouris, secular criticism is a form of political being: critical, antifoundational, disobedient, anarchic, yet not negative for negation’s sake but creative of new forms of collective reflection, interrogation, and action that alter not only the current terrain of dominant politics but also the very self-conceptualization of what it means to be human.
Doyeeta Majumder
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781786941688
- eISBN:
- 9781789623260
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781786941688.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
Continuing the discussion of Scottish texts and politics, this chapter focuses on George Buchanan’s Latin play Baptistes (roughly contemporaneous with Ane Satyre) and his later treatise De Iure Regni ...
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Continuing the discussion of Scottish texts and politics, this chapter focuses on George Buchanan’s Latin play Baptistes (roughly contemporaneous with Ane Satyre) and his later treatise De Iure Regni Apud Scotos, positing that unlike the playwrights and resistance theorists preceding him, Buchanan conceives of the state and its power as a human artefact rather than a product of divine making. This conception of politics not only aligns Buchanan with Machiavellian political thought in significant ways, but also, together with the fact that Scotland witnessed the actual deposition of the legitimate sovereign at the hands of her nobility, enabled him to formulate a defence of resistance that manages to overcome the limitations of traditional Calvinist resistance arguments.Less
Continuing the discussion of Scottish texts and politics, this chapter focuses on George Buchanan’s Latin play Baptistes (roughly contemporaneous with Ane Satyre) and his later treatise De Iure Regni Apud Scotos, positing that unlike the playwrights and resistance theorists preceding him, Buchanan conceives of the state and its power as a human artefact rather than a product of divine making. This conception of politics not only aligns Buchanan with Machiavellian political thought in significant ways, but also, together with the fact that Scotland witnessed the actual deposition of the legitimate sovereign at the hands of her nobility, enabled him to formulate a defence of resistance that manages to overcome the limitations of traditional Calvinist resistance arguments.
Xin Wei Sha
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780262019514
- eISBN:
- 9780262318914
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262019514.003.0008
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Aesthetics
Answering the challenge to do art "all the way down," in place of anthropocentric art and science can we build world-oriented art and engineering? This motivates the creation of events and ...
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Answering the challenge to do art "all the way down," in place of anthropocentric art and science can we build world-oriented art and engineering? This motivates the creation of events and technologies with a nonconventional notion of agency sans agents. This final chapter harvests implications from the previous chapters for articulating and inhabiting the world as quickened matter. In particular, the chapter considers materiality and lifelikeness of objects as effects of process, rather than predicates on objects. Nevertheless, objects are not epiphenomenal, because they and the processes under which they emerge as invariants are immanent in the substrate that constitutes the world. Furthermore, when we articulate and inhabit the world in such a mode, the world becomes as rich as we imagine, but without boundless complexity. This profoundly motivates field-based rather than object-oriented or ego-oriented social technology and technologies of performance sustaining ethico-aesthetic play.Less
Answering the challenge to do art "all the way down," in place of anthropocentric art and science can we build world-oriented art and engineering? This motivates the creation of events and technologies with a nonconventional notion of agency sans agents. This final chapter harvests implications from the previous chapters for articulating and inhabiting the world as quickened matter. In particular, the chapter considers materiality and lifelikeness of objects as effects of process, rather than predicates on objects. Nevertheless, objects are not epiphenomenal, because they and the processes under which they emerge as invariants are immanent in the substrate that constitutes the world. Furthermore, when we articulate and inhabit the world in such a mode, the world becomes as rich as we imagine, but without boundless complexity. This profoundly motivates field-based rather than object-oriented or ego-oriented social technology and technologies of performance sustaining ethico-aesthetic play.
Stathis Gourgouris
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780823253784
- eISBN:
- 9780823261215
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823253784.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Philosophy of Religion
Traces the origins of the notion of “secular criticism’” from Edward Said’s invention to the developments of comparative literature as a field of critical knowledge. Links the capacity for critique ...
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Traces the origins of the notion of “secular criticism’” from Edward Said’s invention to the developments of comparative literature as a field of critical knowledge. Links the capacity for critique to radical invention and political decision. Disputes the notion that critique is neutral, and argues that it forms part of the process of radical poiesis.Less
Traces the origins of the notion of “secular criticism’” from Edward Said’s invention to the developments of comparative literature as a field of critical knowledge. Links the capacity for critique to radical invention and political decision. Disputes the notion that critique is neutral, and argues that it forms part of the process of radical poiesis.
Sebastian Luft
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- October 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780198738848
- eISBN:
- 9780191802034
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198738848.003.0003
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
This chapter lays out the critique that Natorp had of his collaborator, but also highlights what was, to Natorp, undoubtedly his most original project, a transcendental psychology. This psychology ...
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This chapter lays out the critique that Natorp had of his collaborator, but also highlights what was, to Natorp, undoubtedly his most original project, a transcendental psychology. This psychology is, to this day, the best-known part of his thought and was also of most influence on his contemporaries, such as the phenomenologists. Yet, Natorp’s trajectory is itself instructive, as Natorp came to radically criticize his own psychological stage and moved on to a “panmethodism,” which Cassirer did not follow. But spelling out where Natorp went beyond the critical confines of the Marburg Method, and where Cassirer was critical of his teacher’s path, will prove useful for understanding the path that Cassirer was to take, with Cohen and Natorp, and against Cohen and Natorp. Cassirer takes what is best from both to forge his own method. His own system can, however, not be adequately understood without following this windy path.Less
This chapter lays out the critique that Natorp had of his collaborator, but also highlights what was, to Natorp, undoubtedly his most original project, a transcendental psychology. This psychology is, to this day, the best-known part of his thought and was also of most influence on his contemporaries, such as the phenomenologists. Yet, Natorp’s trajectory is itself instructive, as Natorp came to radically criticize his own psychological stage and moved on to a “panmethodism,” which Cassirer did not follow. But spelling out where Natorp went beyond the critical confines of the Marburg Method, and where Cassirer was critical of his teacher’s path, will prove useful for understanding the path that Cassirer was to take, with Cohen and Natorp, and against Cohen and Natorp. Cassirer takes what is best from both to forge his own method. His own system can, however, not be adequately understood without following this windy path.
