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著者名 書名 出版社 出版年
Taihei Hanada著 Samson in Labour: Milton and Early Modern Political Theology 麗澤大学出版会 2019

【梗概】

Samson in Labour offers the first comprehensive discussion of John Milton’s engagement with an English constitutional crisis of labour as reflected in Samson Agonistes. Taihei Hanada argues that the “secularizing” of English politics in the century after the Restoration (1660) was due to a profound change in the conception and organization of labour. Drawing on the “theologico-political” dimension of early modern labour, Hanada reassesses Milton’s signification of labour as constituting a form of God-given freedom, putting Milton’s ideas in dialogue with the writings of other early modern thinkers (such as Thomas Hobbes and John Locke) on commerce, labour, slavery, land, work and aesthetic form.

Samson in Labour is a powerful, startling and intellectually rich encounter set among philosophy, economic theory and Milton, engaging a range of powerful thinkers and theorists, from Carl Schmitt, Hannah Arendt, Giorgio Agamben and Max Weber to Karl Marx, Aristotle, Giambattista Vico, Hegel, Walter Benjamin and Ernst Kantorowicz. Hanada tackles the origins and nature of modernity, secularization, economic relationships, property, time, colonization and freedom of choice, centered on the key question: “Why, then, did Milton write Paradise Lost?”

3. 目次
Introduction
1. Labour and Literature in Restoration England
2. Mapping the Scholarly Terrain
3. A Genealogy of Labour: Tracing a Keyword of Early Modernity

Chapter 1. ‘Of dire necessity’: The Metaphors of State in Samson Agonistes
1. Samson as Political Theory
2. Cain or the Violent Origin of Law
3. Hobbes’s Concept of Labour in the Revolution of the Sea, 1588-1688
4. ‘A Necessity of Commerce’: English Mercantilism, 1664-1675
5. Milton as a Silkworm

Chapter 2. Aesthetics and the Problem of Labour in Samson Agonistes
1. Labour and Aesthetics after the Restoration
2. To Dress or to Till? The Cause of the Earth in Restoration Polemics, 1667-1677
3. The Sublimation of Agrarian Labour
4. The Phenomenology of Mind?
5. Saint Paul on Calling
6. Labour under the Law: Milton among the Calvinists

Chapter 3. From Homo Economicus to Optimus Homo: Samson’s Poetics of the Corpse
1. Labour as Persona
2. A Poetics of the Corpse
3. Being Human (with Marx)
4. Being Human (with Aristotle)
5. Towards the Reason of the Political: Milton’s Urania

Chapter 4. Labour and Utopia
1. The Maritime Death of Natural Language
2. Milton’s Reply to the Machiavellian Moment
3. ‘Let us divide our labours’
4. ‘Labouring had raised’

Bibliography
Index

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