The Legitimacy of the Middle Ages: On the Unwritten History of Theory (Post-Contemporary Interventions)

289 Pages·2010·2.11 MB·English

by  Andrew Cole

The Legitimacy of the Middle Ages
post-contemporary
interventions
Series Editors: Stanley Fish and Fredric Jameson

The Legitimacy of the Middle Ages
On the Unwritten History of Theory
andrew cole and d. vance smith, eds.
Duke University Press durham & london 2010
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Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
Outside Modernity
andrew cole and d. vance smith
1
theological modernities
The Sense of an Epoch
Periodization, Sovereignty, and the Limits of Secularization
kathleen davis
39
The Sacrament of the Fetish, the Miracle of the Commodity
Hegel and Marx
andrew cole
70
Empire, Apocalypse, and the 9/11 Premodern
bruce holsinger
94
Response
More Than We Bargained For
michael hardt
119
scholastic modernities
We Have Never Been Schreber
Paranoia, Medieval and Modern
erin labbie and michael uebel
127
Medieval Studies, Historicity, and Heidegger’s
Early Phenomenology
ethan knapp
159
Medieval Currencies
Nominalism and Art
c. d. blanton
194
Response
Medusa’s Gaze
jed rasula
233
Afterword
On the Medieval
fredric jameson
243
Bibliography
247
Contributors
269
Index
271
viii Contents
Acknowledgments
The editors would like to thank Reynolds Smith at Duke University Press
for his interest in this project and Ryan Perry for his work on the bibliogra-
phy. We are also grateful for the time and attention two anonymous
readers for Duke devoted to this volume, improving it with their criticism.
A part of Kathleen Davis’s essay ‘‘The Sense of an Epoch’’ was pub-
lished in her book Periodization and Sovereignty: How Ideas of Feudalism
and Secularization Govern the Politics of Time (2007) and appears here, in a
different form, by permission of the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Bruce Holsinger’s essay ‘‘Empire, Apocalypse, and the 9/11 Premodern’’
first appeared in Critical Inquiry 34, no. 3, ∫2008 by the University of
Chicago Press. All rights reserved. The author modified this essay for the
present volume. We thank these publishers for permission to adapt these
essays here.