The Future of Illusion: Political Theology and Early Modern Texts

by Victoria Kahn

Book Overview

In recent years, the rise of fundamentalism and a related turn to religion in the humanities have led to a powerful resurgence of interest in the problem of political theology. In a critique of this contemporary fascination with the theological underpinnings of modern politics, Victoria Kahn proposes a return to secularism--whose origins she locates in the art, literature, and political theory of the early modern period--and argues in defense of literature...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022637937X
• ISBN13: 9780226379371
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"