The legitimacy of the Middle Ages : on the unwritten history of theory

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The legitimacy of the Middle Ages : on the unwritten history of theory

Andrew Cole and D. Vance Smith, eds

(Post-contemporary interventions / series editors, Stanley Fish & Fredric Jameson)

Duke University Press, 2010

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  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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This collection of essays argues that any valid theory of the modern should-indeed must-reckon with the medieval. Offering a much-needed correction to theorists such as Hans Blumenberg, who in his Legitimacy of the Modern Age describes the "modern age" as a complete departure from the Middle Ages, these essays forcefully show that thinkers from Adorno to Zizek have repeatedly drawn from medieval sources to theorize modernity. To forget the medieval, or to discount its continued effect on contemporary thought, is to neglect the responsibilities of periodization. In The Legitimacy of the Middle Ages, modernists and medievalists, as well as scholars specializing in eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century comparative literature, offer a new history of theory and philosophy through essays on secularization and periodization, Marx's (medieval) theory of commodity fetishism, Heidegger's scholasticism, and Adorno's nominalist aesthetics. One essay illustrates the workings of medieval mysticism in the writing of Freud's most famous patient, Daniel Paul Schreber, author of Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (1903). Another looks at Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's Empire, a theoretical synthesis whose conscientious medievalism was the subject of much polemic in the post-9/11 era, a time in which premodernity itself was perceived as a threat to western values. The collection concludes with an afterword by Fredric Jameson, a theorist of postmodernism who has engaged with the medieval throughout his career. Contributors: Charles D. Blanton, Andrew Cole, Kathleen Davis, Michael Hardt, Bruce Holsinger, Fredric Jameson, Ethan Knapp, Erin Labbie, Jed Rasula, D. Vance Smith, Michael Uebel

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Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Outside Modernity / Andrew Cole and D. Vance Smith 1 Theological Modernities The Sense of an Epoch: Periodization, Sovereignty, and the Limits of Secularization / Kathleen Davis 39 The Sacrament of the Fetish, the Miracle of the Commodity: Hegel and Marx / Andrew Cole 70 Empire, Apocalypse, and the 9/11 Premodern / Bruce Holsinger 94 Response: More Than We Bargained For / Michael Hardt 119 Scholastic Modernities We Have Never Been Schreber: Paranoia, Medieval, and Modern / Erin Labbie and Michael Uebel 127 Medieval Studies, Historicity, and Heidegger's Early Phenomenology / Ethan Knapp 159 Medieval Currencies: Nominalism and Art / C. D. Blanton 194 Response: Medusa's Gaze / Jed Rasula 233 Afterword. On the Medieval / Fredric Jameson 243 Bibliography 247 Contributors 269 Index 271

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