A Political Necrology of God.
For early modern Christian subjects, Christ's crucifixion and death fixes at the heart of things a momentary submission to decreation and destruction, replenished by the Resurrection and the promise of the Second Coming, but present all the same as a kind of absolute eclipse in ontotheology. With re...
| Publicado en: | Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Vol. 13; no. 3; pp. 105 - 126 |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
2013
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