The Protestant Interest
New England After Puritanism
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 2008
224 pages
978-0-300-12840-6 (ISBN)
Description
This translation of Carlo Michelstaedter's Persuasion and Rhetoric brings the powerful and original work of a seminal cultural figure to English-language readers for the first time. Ostensibly a commentary on Plato's and Aristotle's relation to the pre-Socratic philosophers, Michelstaedter's deeply personal book is an extraordinary rhetorical feat that reflects the author's struggle to make sense of modern life. This edition includes an introduction discussing his life and work, an extensive bibliography, notes to introduce each chapter, and critical notes illuminating the text. Within hours of completing Persuasion and Rhetoric, his doctoral thesis, 23-year-old Michelstaedter shot himself to death. The text he left behind has proved to be one of the most trenchant and influential studies in modern rhetoric, a work that develops Nietzschean themes and anticipates the conclusions of, among others, Martin Heidegger. Publication of the book in English is an event of great magnitude for students of Italian philosophy, rhetoric, and literature as well as the culture of Mitteleuropa.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: ''Fidelity to Christ and to the Protestant Succession'': Benjamin Colman and the Protestant Interest
- Chapter 2: ''Let Hell and Rome Do Their Worst'': World News, the Catholic Threat, and International Protestantism
- Chapter 3: Protestants, Popery, and Prognostications: New England Almanacs
- Chapter 4: ''The Devil and Father Rallee'': Narrating Father Rale's War
- Chapter 5: ''The Madness of the Jacobite Party'': Imagining a High-Church Jacobite Threat
- Chapter 6: ''The Dawning of that Sabbath of Rest Promised to the People of God'': Eschatology and Identity
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index
