Permanent revolution: the Reformation and the illiberal roots of Liberalism 9780674240544, 9780674240551, 9780674240537, 9780674987135, 0674987136, 0674240537

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Permanent revolution: the Reformation and the illiberal roots of Liberalism
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Table of contents :
Part I. Religion as revolution: Revolutionary religion --
Permanently revolutionary religion --
Part II. Working modernity's despair: Modernizing despair --
Modernizing despair: lyric and narrative entrapment --
Modernizing despair's epic non-escape --
Part III. Sincerity and hypocrisy: Pre-modern and Henrician hypocrisy --
The revolutionary hypocrite: Elizabethan hypocrisy --
Managing hypocrisy?: Shakespeare, Milton, Bunyan, 1689 --
Part IV. Breaking idols: Liberating iconoclasm --
Saving images and the Calvinist hammer --
One last iconoclastic push? --
Part V. Theater, magic, sacrament: Religion, dramicide, and the rise of magic --
Enemies of the revolution: magic and theater --
Last judgements: stage managing the magic --
Part VI. Managing scripture: Scripture: institutions, interpretation, and violence --
Private scriptural anguish --
Escaping literalism's trap --
Part VII. Liberty and liberties: Liberty taking liberties.

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