Hemingway and Agamben

Finding Religion Without God

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AvMarcos Antonio Norris,Oregon State University) Norris, Marcos Antonio (Lecturer in the School of Writing, Literature and Film

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Interprets Hemingway's fiction through the philosophical lens of Giorgio AgambenResolves debate over Hemingway's religious orientationBrings Hemingway, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Giorgio Agamben into close conversation for an interdisciplinary study of political theology, existentialism, posthumanism, and modernist literatureLeverages Giorgio Agamben's analysis of secularization for an unprecedented reading of Hemingway's fictionReveals the Roman Catholic foundations of secular existentialism, as well as the existential underbelly of literary modernismPresents the ritualistic killing of animals by human beings as the latter's semi-conscious attempt to reclaim the imago DeiBuilds upon the preceding points to level a posthumanist critique of moral absolutismMarcos Antonio Norris implements Giorgio Agamben's notion of 'secularized theism' to resolve a critical disagreement among Hemingway scholars who have portrayed the writer as either a Roman Catholic or a secular existentialist. He argues that Hemingway is, properly speaking, neither a secularist nor a theist, but a 'secularised theist', whose 'religion' is practiced through sovereign decision making, which, in its most extreme form, includes the act of killing. This book resolves an important debate in Hemingway studies and uncovers fundamental similarities between theism and atheism, building upon the theoretical undertaking first introduced by Agamben and the Existentialists (EUP, 2021). Bringing Ernest Hemingway, Jean-Paul Sartre and Giorgio Agamben into close conversation, the author reconceptualises existentialism, issues a posthumanist critique of moral authoritarianism and advances an original interpretation of Hemingway as a secularised theist.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-10-17
Mått156 x 234 x 22 mm
Vikt572 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor288
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399516785

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Marcos Antonio Norris is a lecturer in the School of Writing, Literature and Film at Oregon State University. He is the author of Hemingway and Agamben: Finding Religion Without God (2023) and the co-editor of Agamben and the Existentialists (2021). Norris has authored more than a dozen peer-reviewed articles, most recently including 'Reading ‘On the Quai at Smyrna’ and ‘A Natural History of the Dead’ in Consideration of Hemingway’s Anti-Humanism' with The Hemingway Review and 'Francis Macomber, the Matador: Reading Hemingway’s ‘The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber’' with Studies in the American Short Story.

PART I: HEMINGWAY, SARTRE, AND THE SECULARAn IntroductionA Word on SecularizationHemingway as Religious BelieverSartre as Religious BelieverReturning to HemingwayBook SummaryPART II: SOVEREIGN DECISIONISM AND THE IMAGO DEIThe Failed Atheism of Jean-Paul SartreThe Biographical Origins of Sartre’s Failed AtheismAgamben and the Creation of MankindLooking at Sartre Through Agamben’s EyesHemingway’s Youth as an Oak Park CongregationalistA Change in Hemingway’s Religious TemperamentHemingway the ExistentialistHemingway the CatholicHemingway the Un/BelieverPART III: THE PROBLEM WITH HUMAN EXCEPTIONALISMApproaching the Masculine in Hemingway’s FictionOn the Quai at SmyrnaDeath in the AfternoonHemingway’s Stance on Animal EqualityPART IV: HEMINGWAY’S MASCULINE HEROThere Are No Happy EndingsOn the Use of RitualSuicide as CowardiceThe Faena, Or Becoming Like GodThe Masculine, Existential HeroCause for Question in Hemingway’s Posthumous WorksConclusion: The Death of God, The Death of ManBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX

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