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" Permanent revolution : "
James Simpson.
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879695
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Simpson, James,1954-
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Permanent revolution : : the Reformation and the illiberal roots of Liberalism /\ James Simpson.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,, 2019.
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, ©2019
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xv, 444 pages ;; 24 cm
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0674987136
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: 9780674987135
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Part 1. Religion as revolution: Revolutionary religion -- Permanently revolutionary religion -- Part 2. Working modernity's despair: Modernizing despair -- Modernizing despair: narrative and lyric entrapment -- Modernizing despair's epic non-escape -- Part 3. Sincerity and hypocrisy: Pre-modern and Henrician hypocrisy -- The revolutionary hypocrite: Elizabethan hypocrisy -- Managing hypocrisy?: Shakespeare, Milton, Bunyan, 1689 -- Part 4. Breaking idols: Liberating iconoclasm -- Saving images and the Calvinist hammer -- One last iconoclastic push? -- Part 5. Theater, magic, sacrament: Religion, dramicide, and the rise of magic -- Enemies of the revolution: magic and theater -- Last judgement: stage managing the magic -- Part 6. Managing scripture: Scripture: institutions, interpretation, and violence -- Private scriptural anguish -- Escaping literalism's trap -- Part 7. Liberty and liberties: Liberty taking liberties.
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The proto-Liberalism of the late seventeenth century in England reverses all the central persuasions of illiberal evangelical religion of the early sixteenth century. Free-will, division of powers, non-literalist Biblical reading, aesthetics, theatricality: each reverses cardinal positions of Lutheran and Calvinist religion. How? Permanent Revolution argues that all revolutions take about 150 years to settle down. In the case of the Reformation in England, the first revolution (what Simpson calls "permanent revolution") was heady and radical. It was also ultimately unsustainable. In about 150 years it produced its opposite, the second Reformation which led to the Enlightenment. In our own times, the author says, liberals make a dangerous mistake when they do not understand that Evangelical fundamentalists descend from the same parent as themselves - the "permanent revolution" of the early Reformation. The core of the book is about the English Reformation and the archive is largely literary. Yet the political and intellectual ramifications exceed the remit of literary studies. The story of the proto-Enlightenment narrated here is not a story of secularist repudiation from outside. Instead, it is primarily a story of transformation and reversal of the Protestant tradition from within. The second Reformation (the one that became the Enlightenment) is less a secularist opponent of the first than its dissident younger sibling, driven and marked, if not scarred, by its older evangelical sibling and competitor.--
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Literature and society-- England-- History-- 16th century.
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Literature and society-- England-- History-- 17th century.
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Reformation-- England.
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Religion and literature-- England-- History-- 16th century.
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Religion and literature-- England-- History-- 17th century.
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Social change-- Religious aspects-- Protestant churches.
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Social change-- England.
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Aufklärung
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Liberalismus
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Literature and society.
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Protestantismus
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Reformation.
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Religion and literature.
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Social change.
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England
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England.
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274.2/06
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BR375.S56 2019
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