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The legitimacy of the Middle Ages : on the unwritten history of theory / Andrew Cole and D. Vance Smith, eds.

Cole, Andrew, 1968- (Added Author). Smith, D. Vance, 1963- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780822346524 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780822346449 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: viii, 276 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Outside modernity / Andrew Cole and D. Vance Smith -- The sense of an epoch : periodization, sovereignty, and the limits of secularization / Kathleen Davis -- The sacrament of the fetish, the miracle of the commodity : Hegel and Marx / Andrew Cole -- Empire, apocalypse, and the 9/11 premodern / Bruce Holsinger -- Response : more than we bargained for / Michael Hardt -- Scholastic modernities : we have never been Schreber : paranoia, medieval and modern / Erin Labbie and Michael Uebel -- Medieval studies, historicity, and Heidegger's early phenomenology / Ethan Knapp -- Medieval currencies : nominalism and art / C.D. Blanton -- Response : Medusa's gaze / Jed Rasula -- On the medieval / Fredric Jameson.