Naslov
Historicism, Subjectivity, Counsel

Autori
Lupić, Ivan

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, ostalo, znanstveni

Skup
Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting

Mjesto i datum
Atlanta (GA), Sjedinjene Američke Države, 05.04.2017. - 08.04.2017

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Early modern drama ; counsel ; history of subjectivity ; Stephen Greenblatt ; Michel Foucault

Sažetak
Stephen Greenblatt’s Renaissance Self-Fashioning (1980) continues to hold its place as the most eloquent and influential treatment of selfhood in early modernity. What is remarkable about it is that it is not a book about counsel. When Greenblatt mentions counsel, which always happens in passing, the word is used in its least interesting sense: a piece of advice to be taken and followed ; a slice of hardened wisdom repeatedly, and often obnoxiously, forced down one’s throat. For Greenblatt, the Renaissance self is fashioned under conditions that include, among others, submission to an external authority and a relation to the Other that “always involves some experience of threat, some effacement or undermining, some loss of self” (9). Its home is primarily language, and its artful construction is to be studied alongside the variety of cultural discourses that participated in its shaping without necessarily eliminating its own power to form. I want to argue that the best Renaissance word to describe this process is, in fact, counsel—not as we understand the term, but as it was examined and understood in the early modern period. I want to ask what kind of history of the Renaissance subject we can tell if as our starting point we take not the Foucault Greenblatt drew on, but the Foucault we know from his late lectures—Foucault, Greenblatt’s contemporary.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija, Povijest, Interdisciplinarne humanističke znanosti, Književnost

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