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Open Subjects - English Renaissance Republicans, Modern Selfhoods and the Virtue of Vulnerability (Paperback)
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Open Subjects - English Renaissance Republicans, Modern Selfhoods and the Virtue of Vulnerability (Paperback)
Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture
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This is the first exploration of how early modern republican and
contemporary radical thought connect with and complement each
other. Studies of the republican legacy have proliferated in recent
years, always to argue for a polity that cultivates the virtues,
protections, and entitlements which foster the self's ability to
simulate an invulnerable existence. James Kuzner's original new
study of writings by Spenser, Shakespeare, Marvell and Milton is
the first to present a genealogy for the modern self in which its
republican origins can be understood far more radically. In doing
so, the study is also the first to draw radical and republican
thought into sustained conversation, and to locate a republic for
which vulnerability is, unexpectedly, as much what community has to
offer as it is what community guards against. At a time when the
drive to safeguard citizens has gathered enough momentum to justify
almost any state action, "Open Subjects" questions whether
vulnerability is the evil we so often believe it to be. It traces
English republicanism from the late-16 century to the late-17th
century. It analyses Renaissance literary texts against classical,
early modern and contemporary political thought. It includes new
readings of English Renaissance figures in histories of friendship,
the public sphere and selfhood.
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