Description
About the Author
Victoria Kahn is the Katherine Bixby Hotchkis Chair in English and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Rhetoric, Prudence, and Skepticism in the Renaissance (Cornell University Press, 1985), Machiavellian Rhetoric: From the Counter-Reformation to Milton (Princeton University Press, 1994), Wayward Contracts: The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640-1674 (Princeton University Press, 2004), and The Future of Illusion: Political Theology and Early Modern Texts (University of Chicago Press, 2014). She has edited Machiavelli and the Discourse of Literature (Cornell University Press, 1993), Rhetoric and Law in Early Modern Europe (Yale University Press, 2001), and Politics and the Passions (Princeton University Press, 2006).
Reviews
Kahn makes a provocative case for the language arts. A literary education engaging broadly with how beliefs are made stands to offer a genuine alternative to the certainty, self satisfaction, and circular logic shared by political and religious fundamentalists. * Victor Lenthe, Bilkent University, Journal of British Studies *
Kahn's thesis is presented in a remarkably concise book which offers productive avenues for future thought. Kahn invites us to consider literature as a motive force behind the changing nature, across modernity, of belief itself. * Tomas Weber, Los Angeles Review of Books *
Book Information
ISBN 9780198808749
Author Victoria Kahn
Format Hardback
Page Count 208
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 314g
Dimensions(mm) 205mm * 135mm * 17mm