...; and (2) the ongoing debates around the politics of death, articulated through the writing of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Carl Schmitt, Achille Mbembe, and Arendt. The article argues that, insofar as they presume an understanding of Bildung as a principal category of social thought, these debates...

...Michael Scrivener Imagined Sovereignties: Toward a New Political Romanticism . By Kuiken Kir . New York : Fordham University Press , 2014 . x, 264 p. © 2016 by University of Oregon 2016 Works Cited Habermas Jürgen . “The Horrors of Autonomy: Carl Schmitt in English...

... antiquity, the Rome(s) of Cicero and Horace, Ambrogio Loren- zetti’s Siena, the âge classique Académie, and German thought from Luther to Carl Schmitt. Hamilton is at pains to avoid having his project subsumed under the twin dangers of a well-anchored Begriffsgeschichte and the safe punts of cultural...

... perspective. It does not address, except minimally, the Romantic-era political context or the actual politics of Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Shelley. Rather, Imagined Sovereignties frames the topic of literature’s pol- itics more abstractly and philosophically through the ideas of Carl Schmitt...

...: Walter Benjamin's Theory of Literary Criticism . Ithaca : Cornell UP , 1987 . Print . Jones Howard . The Epicurean Tradition . London : Routledge , 1989 . Print . Kahn Victoria . “Hamlet or Hecuba: Carl Schmitt's Decision.” Representations 83 ( Summer 2003 ): 67 – 96...

... criti- cism; Carl Schmitt’s and Walter Benjamin’s comments on political theology; or various studies of mysticism, magic, and disenchantment (see During and Viswa- nathan, “Secularism And the last few years have seen a wealth of scholarship on these topics: Aamir Mufti’s special issues of boundary...

...- lad stanzas (198–99). Although I do not think of politics or religion through the categories of political theol- ogy, and I find dismaying the revival of Carl Schmitt, I was able to learn new things in the readings of these four Romantics through the lens of political theology. There is loss...

... Walter Benjamin to Carl Schmitt, via Thomas Hobbes.” Critical Inquiry 25 ( 1999 ): 247 – 66 . Print . Derrida Jacques . Acts of Religion . Ed. Anidjar G. . London : Routledge , 2002 . Print . Funkenstein Amos . “Gershom Scholem: Charisma, Kairos, and the Messianic...

...: Postcoloniality and the Ends of Comparison . Stanford: Stanford UP, 2007 . Schmitt, Carl. Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty . Trans. George Schwab. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1985 . Williams, William Carlos. In the American Grain . 1925. New York: New Directions, 1956...

.... Copyright © 2018 University of Oregon 2018 political allegory sovereignty in fiction Walter Benjamin Michel Foucault Carl Schmitt Works Cited Ahmad Aijaz . “ Jameson’s Rhetoric of Otherness and ‘National Allegory.’ ” Social Text , vol. 17 , 1987 , pp. 3 – 25 . Allen...

... in the work of Carl Schmitt. But there is a crucial difference to be drawn between the totalizing, final, “göttliche Gewalt” that might be read in Benjamin’s more emphatically Messianic writings—and in his correspondence with Scholem—and the far more measured, mediated violence of the image which was, again...

... of Democracy , translated by Brault Pascale-Anne and Naas Michael . New York : Fordham University Press , 2010 . Phillips James . The Equivocation of Reason: Kleist Reading Kant . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2007 . Schmitt Carl . Political Theology...

...: Eerdmans, 1981 . Elizondo, Virgilio. Galilean Journey. The Mexican-american Promise . New york: orbis, 1983 . Heidegger, Martin. Being and Time . New york: Harper and Row, 1962 . Schmitt, carl. Der Begriff des Politischen . Berlin: Dunker und Humblot, 1966 . Wallerstein, Immanuel...

... of God” (the privatization and relativization of the absolute that makes Nietzsche’s later pronouncement possible and necessary). I then recall the 1 Against the secularization thesis in Carl Schmitt, and also at a distance from Hans Blumen- berg’s response in The Legitimacy of the Modern Age, I...

... in the language of passing becomes even more explicit in a discussion of Carl Schmitt in which Derrida comes close to making a ghostly “in passing” paradigmatic for all language: Schmitt’s entire discourse posits and supposes in fact, as we shall verify, a concrete sense of the concrete which he opposes...

... Play.” MLN 106 . 3 ( 1991 ): 465 – 500 . Print . ———. “Taking Exception to Decision: Walter Benjamin and Carl Schmitt.” Diacritics 22 . 3/4 ( 1992 ): 5 – 18 . Print . Wohlfarth Irving . “Et Cetera? The Historian as Chiffonnier.” New German Critique 39 ( 1986 ): 142...

... initially to have envisaged. Nor does he count, like the partisan or guerrilla in the definition Carl Schmitt developed in the face of the worldwide paramilitary upheavals and liberation movements in the decades following World War II, as one of “the last sentinels of the earth,” standing for “a piece...

... of the Enlightenment, arguing that because Foucault’s version of poststructuralist theory hollowed out reason, the result of his theoreti- cal stance could only be unreason or the authoritarian decisionism of the legal theorist Carl Schmitt. Such an attack on reason, Habermas warned, would put the whole...

..., from an entirely different perspective, with Laclau’s dislocation), but not every- thing is considered or presented as necessary. Agamben, however, points to a generalization or normalization of the state of exception in what he terms, again borrowing a phrase from Carl Schmitt, a “free...

...: The History of the Danes . Ed. Friis-Jensen Karsten . Trans. Fisher Peter . Oxford : Clarendon Press , 2015 . Print . Schlueter June . “Rereading the Peacham Drawing.” Shakespeare Quarterly 50 . 2 ( 1999 ): 171 – 84 . Print . Schmitt Carl . Hamlet or Hecuba...