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The two-soul'd animal : early modern literatures of the classical and Christian souls
- Title
- The two-soul'd animal : early modern literatures of the classical and Christian souls / James Jaehoon Lee.
- Author
- Lee, James Jaehoon
- Publication
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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- Description
- x, 186 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- The Two-Soul'd Animal illuminates an early modern debate that recognized the troubling extent to which Christian thought had defined the human in terms of two incompatible models of soul. As the sixteenth century progressed, Christian and humanist thinkers began to realize that these two souls fundamentally contradicted each other. On the one hand, Christian theology had a great debt to Aristotle's tripartite model of the soul based on three organic faculties: intellection, sensation, and nutrition. On the other, the Christian soul was defined by its immortal, immaterial, and transcendental substance. The sixteenth-century acknowledgement of the two souls provoked a great deal of anxiety, leading Christian thinkers to ask: How can we, as God's perfect design, have two redundant and yet contradictory souls? And how could the core of the religious subject possibly be defined by a psychological paradox? As a result, the "soul" was an intrinsically unstable term being renegotiated in Renaissance culture.The English writers studied in The Two-Soul'd Animal place two prevailing interpretations of the soul's faculties-one rhetorical on the plane of aesthetics, the other theological on the plane of ethics-into contact as a way to construct a new mode of Christian agency.
- Alternative Title
- Two-souled animal
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. The Two-Soul'd Animal; Chapter 1. The Two Souls as a Problem of Christian Freedom; Chapter 2. Hamlet's ""Soulbending Sovereignty"" and Shakespeare's Rhetorical Soul; Chapter 3. Sir John Davies and the Lyrical Psychology of the English Commonwealth; Chapter 4. ""Be Thou Verbum"": John Donne's Printerly Techne of the Soul; Chapter 5. From Animal to Anima: Milton's ""Living Soul"" and the Promise of Discursive Reason; Coda. ""Incompletely Human"" before Descartes; Notes; Index
- Call Number
- JFE 19-9243
- ISBN
- 9780810139275
- 0810139278
- 9780810139268
- 081013926X
- OCLC
- 1041882372
- Author
- Lee, James Jaehoon, author.
- Title
- The two-soul'd animal : early modern literatures of the classical and Christian souls / James Jaehoon Lee.
- Publisher
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1500-1700
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-9243