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 Zižek 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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