Victoria Kahn
Biographic Data
| ID | 692578 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victoria Kahn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victoria |
| FAMILY NAME | Kahn |
| SIGNATURE | KAHN V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Art, Judaism, and the Critique of Fascism in the Work of Ernst Cassirer
This essay argues that Ernst Cassirer's thinking about the spontaneity of form-giving in the creation of art, which he allies to the ethical dimension of Judaism, informs his critique of fascism in The Myth of the State. Aesthetics, for Cassirer, is not divorced from politics but one of its conditions of possibility
What Original Sin? Political Theology, the Jewish Question, and the Work of Metaphor
Though little discussed by secular-minded critics, original sin is at the heart of the political theological project, if by this we understand the argument for some kind of transcendental source of political authority. Sin, as both the cause and the manifestation of fallen human nature, is what necessitates government. Schmitt was drawing on a long tradition of such arguments, reaching at least as far back as Saint Augustine's City of God, when h…
The Future of Illusion: Political Theology and Early Modern Texts
Kahn, Victoria. The Future of Illusion: Political Theology and Early Modern Texts. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 39, Number 1, Winter 2016, pp. 5-212), on Érudit
Fondly Overcome: Revisiting the History of the Liberal Subject
Este artículo reconsidera los debates del siglo diecisiete inglés sobre el deber político, analizando el diálogo implícito entre el Leviatán de Hobbes y el Paraíso Perdido de Milton. En contraste con los historiadores del pensamiento político que interpretaron los debates del siglo diecisiete en términos de una enervada concepción protoliberal del sujeto político autónomo, este trabajo plantea que el intercambio entre Milton y Hobbes realza la di…
Making Sense as a Cultural Practice: Historical Perspectives
The production of sense is a central field of action of cultural and political practice. The articles examine how, in different contexts, the construction of sense and its outcome as a cultural practice
The First Translations of Machiavelli's “Prince” from the Sixteenth to the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
Roberto De Pol has assembled a collection of essays on the early translations of Machiavelli's Prince with the aim of exploring how editors and translators shape the understanding of and response to primary texts. The volume includes essays on the first French translations, the Reformation context and ideological work of the Telius Latin translation, four early English manuscript translations, the first Dutch translation for the “newborn” Dutch r…
Revisiting Agathocles
This article traces Machiavelli's indebtedness to Sallust in his discussion of Agathocles the Sicilian in chapter 9 of The Prince. In distinguishing between virtù and glory, Machiavelli was influenced by Sallust's discussion of Catiline and Caesar, and of true and false glory, in the Bellum Catilinae. Writing to Caesar at the height of his power, Sallust needed to negotiate a delicate political situation that was in some ways analogous to Machiav…
Machiavellian Rhetoric: From the Counter-Reformation to Milton
lady combing ("A Buffer for a Taboo, Combing," 1980).Although Navarrete mentions the sensuality of the poem in a passing reference to ter Horst's article, by concentrating on the Petrarchan nature of the conceit, he fails to emphasize enough the enormous thematic and linguistic changes that have taken place between the Spanish Renaissance and the Baroque.Thus, it is hard to agree with Navarrete when he writes that the "entire poem is based on rat…
Political Theology and Fiction in The King's Two Bodies
This essay argues that Ernst Kantorowicz's The King's Two Bodies is intended as a contribution to twentieth-century debates about political theology and that modern students of political theology can learn from Kantorowicz's association of political theology with legal fiction
Hamlet or Hecuba: Carl Schmitt's Decision
This essay explores the importance of the early modern period for the work of the German jurist Carl Schmitt. It argues that Schmitt's misreading of Shakespeare and Hobbes can in turn shed light on Schmitt's own aestheticizing of politics
Reinventing Romance, or the Surprising Effects of Sympathy
This study argues that English royalist prose romance of the 1650s should he read as a contribution to seventeenth-century debates about the role of the passions in forging political obligation. Taken together, Percy Herbert's Princess Cloria (1653-61), Richard Brathwaite's Panthalia (1659), and William Sales’ unfinished Theophania (1655), chart a trajectory from a politics of narrow self-interest — which contemporaries identified with Hobbes — t…
Hobbes, Romance, and the Contract of Mimesis
It is worthy the observing that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death.... Revenge triumphs over death, love slights it, honour aspireth to it, grief flieth to it, fear preoccupateth it. Francis Bacon, “Of Death” This fight being the more cruel, since both Love and Hatred conspired to sharpen their humours, that hard it was to say whether Love with one trumpet, or Hatred with another, gave the lo…
The Duty to Love: Passion and Obligation in Early Modern Political Theory
Research Article| October 01 1999 "The Duty to Love": Passion and Obligation in Early Modern Political Theory Victoria Kahn Victoria Kahn Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1999) 68: 84–107. https://doi.org/10.2307/2902956 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon …
Margaret Cavendish and the Romance of Contract
All things by war are in a Chaos hurl'dBut love alone first made,And still preserves the world.— Alexander BromeI have heard [William Cavendish] say several times, that his love to his gracious master King Charles the Second was above the love he bore to his wife, children, and all his posterity, nay, to his own life: and when, since his return into England, I answered him that I observed his gracious master did not love him so well as he loved h…
Machiavelli and the Discourse of Literature
Machiavellian Rhetoric: From the Counter-Reformation to Milton
Political Theology and Reason of State in Samson Agonistes
Research Article| October 01 1996 Political Theology and Reason of State in Samson Agonistes Victoria Kahn Victoria Kahn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1996) 95 (4): 1065–1097. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-95-4-1065 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Victoria Kahn; Political Theology and Reason of State in Samson Agonistes. Sou…
Between Friends: Discourses of Power and Desire in the Machiavelli-Vettori Letters of 1513-1515 . John M. Najemy
Reading Machiavelli: Innocent Gentillet's Discourse on Method
L'A. analyse le commentaire de Gentillet sur Machiavel a la Renaissance («Discours contre Machiavel») pour montrer qu'il faut lire Machiavel sous l'angle de la rhetorique pour comprendre les rapports entre celle-ci et la politique
Survivors in Mexico
Revising the History of Machiavellism: English Machiavellism and the Doctrine of Things Indifferent
We should be careful since not all indifferent things which appear indifferent are. Florentines can disguise and color any thing; and it is now adays the common exercise of the greatest wits of the world to transform good into evil, evil into good, and both into indifferent; so that in these days scant any thing is as it appears, or appears as it is.In linking the rhetorical machinations of the “Florentine” or stereotypical Machiavel with sixteen…
Sorrow and Consolation in Renaissance Humanism. George W. McClure
Dialogue between Giovanni and a Letter. Giovanni Conversini da Ravenna , Helen Lanneau Eaker , Benjamin G. Kohl
Intention, Interpretation, and the Limits of Meaning: A Response to A. C. Spearing and H. Marshall Leicester, Jr
Intention, Interpretation, and the Limits of Meaning: A Response to A. C. Spearing and H. Marshall Leicester, Jr
Hobbes, Romance, and the Contract of Mimesis
It is worthy the observing that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death.... Revenge triumphs over death, love slights it, honour aspireth to it, grief flieth to it, fear preoccupateth it. Francis Bacon, “Of Death” This fight being the more cruel, since both Love and Hatred conspired to sharpen their humours, that hard it was to say whether Love with one trumpet, or Hatred with another, gave the lo…
Virtù and the Example of Agathocles in Machiavelli's Prince
Political Theology and Fiction in The King's Two Bodies
This essay argues that Ernst Kantorowicz's The King's Two Bodies is intended as a contribution to twentieth-century debates about political theology and that modern students of political theology can learn from Kantorowicz's association of political theology with legal fiction
Hamlet or Hecuba: Carl Schmitt's Decision
This essay explores the importance of the early modern period for the work of the German jurist Carl Schmitt. It argues that Schmitt's misreading of Shakespeare and Hobbes can in turn shed light on Schmitt's own aestheticizing of politics
Reinventing Romance, or the Surprising Effects of Sympathy
This study argues that English royalist prose romance of the 1650s should he read as a contribution to seventeenth-century debates about the role of the passions in forging political obligation. Taken together, Percy Herbert's Princess Cloria (1653-61), Richard Brathwaite's Panthalia (1659), and William Sales’ unfinished Theophania (1655), chart a trajectory from a politics of narrow self-interest — which contemporaries identified with Hobbes — t…
Revisiting Agathocles
This article traces Machiavelli's indebtedness to Sallust in his discussion of Agathocles the Sicilian in chapter 9 of The Prince. In distinguishing between virtù and glory, Machiavelli was influenced by Sallust's discussion of Catiline and Caesar, and of true and false glory, in the Bellum Catilinae. Writing to Caesar at the height of his power, Sallust needed to negotiate a delicate political situation that was in some ways analogous to Machiav…
Margaret Cavendish and the Romance of Contract
All things by war are in a Chaos hurl'dBut love alone first made,And still preserves the world.— Alexander BromeI have heard [William Cavendish] say several times, that his love to his gracious master King Charles the Second was above the love he bore to his wife, children, and all his posterity, nay, to his own life: and when, since his return into England, I answered him that I observed his gracious master did not love him so well as he loved h…
Reading Machiavelli: Innocent Gentillet's Discourse on Method
L'A. analyse le commentaire de Gentillet sur Machiavel a la Renaissance («Discours contre Machiavel») pour montrer qu'il faut lire Machiavel sous l'angle de la rhetorique pour comprendre les rapports entre celle-ci et la politique
Revising the History of Machiavellism: English Machiavellism and the Doctrine of Things Indifferent
We should be careful since not all indifferent things which appear indifferent are. Florentines can disguise and color any thing; and it is now adays the common exercise of the greatest wits of the world to transform good into evil, evil into good, and both into indifferent; so that in these days scant any thing is as it appears, or appears as it is.In linking the rhetorical machinations of the “Florentine” or stereotypical Machiavel with sixteen…
The Sense of Taste in Montaigne's Essais
At the very end of the Essais Montaigne writes, 'j'ay assez vescu, pour mettre en compte l'usage qui m'a conduict si loing. Pour qui en voudra gouster, j'en ay faict l'essay, son eschancon.' At first reading this metaphor of tasting or gouster appears to function like many of those classical metaphors of taste and digestion which refer to the judgment and possible appropriation of another text or another's ideas. The reasoning behind these metaph…
The Sense of Taste in Montaigne's Essais
At the very end of the Essais Montaigne writes, 'j'ay assez vescu, pour mettre en compte l'usage qui m'a conduict si loing. Pour qui en voudra gouster, j'en ay faict l'essay, son eschancon.' At first reading this metaphor of tasting or gouster appears to function like many of those classical metaphors of taste and digestion which refer to the judgment and possible appropriation of another text or another's ideas. The reasoning behind these metaph…
Stultitia and Diatribe: Erasmus' Praise of Prudence
Books in Review
The Light in Troy, Imitation and Discovery in Renaissance Poetry
Virtù and the Example of Agathocles in Machiavelli's Prince
Rhetoric and the Law
Loyalist Resolve: Patient Fortitude in the English Civil War
Raymond A. Anselment. Loyalist Resolve: Patient Fortitude in the English Civil War. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1988. 233 pp. $32.50. - “The Muses Common-Weale“: Poetry and Politics in the Seventeenth Century. Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth, eds., Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1988. vii + 223 pp. $28. - Volume 42 Issue 3
Dialogue between Giovanni and a Letter. Giovanni Conversini da Ravenna , Helen Lanneau Eaker , Benjamin G. Kohl
Intention, Interpretation, and the Limits of Meaning: A Response to A. C. Spearing and H. Marshall Leicester, Jr
Intention, Interpretation, and the Limits of Meaning: A Response to A. C. Spearing and H. Marshall Leicester, Jr
Sorrow and Consolation in Renaissance Humanism. George W. McClure
Survivors in Mexico
Revising the History of Machiavellism: English Machiavellism and the Doctrine of Things Indifferent
We should be careful since not all indifferent things which appear indifferent are. Florentines can disguise and color any thing; and it is now adays the common exercise of the greatest wits of the world to transform good into evil, evil into good, and both into indifferent; so that in these days scant any thing is as it appears, or appears as it is.In linking the rhetorical machinations of the “Florentine” or stereotypical Machiavel with sixteen…
Reading Machiavelli: Innocent Gentillet's Discourse on Method
L'A. analyse le commentaire de Gentillet sur Machiavel a la Renaissance («Discours contre Machiavel») pour montrer qu'il faut lire Machiavel sous l'angle de la rhetorique pour comprendre les rapports entre celle-ci et la politique
Between Friends: Discourses of Power and Desire in the Machiavelli-Vettori Letters of 1513-1515 . John M. Najemy
Machiavelli and the Discourse of Literature
Machiavellian Rhetoric: From the Counter-Reformation to Milton
Political Theology and Reason of State in Samson Agonistes
Research Article| October 01 1996 Political Theology and Reason of State in Samson Agonistes Victoria Kahn Victoria Kahn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1996) 95 (4): 1065–1097. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-95-4-1065 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Victoria Kahn; Political Theology and Reason of State in Samson Agonistes. Sou…
Margaret Cavendish and the Romance of Contract
All things by war are in a Chaos hurl'dBut love alone first made,And still preserves the world.— Alexander BromeI have heard [William Cavendish] say several times, that his love to his gracious master King Charles the Second was above the love he bore to his wife, children, and all his posterity, nay, to his own life: and when, since his return into England, I answered him that I observed his gracious master did not love him so well as he loved h…
The Duty to Love: Passion and Obligation in Early Modern Political Theory
Research Article| October 01 1999 "The Duty to Love": Passion and Obligation in Early Modern Political Theory Victoria Kahn Victoria Kahn Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1999) 68: 84–107. https://doi.org/10.2307/2902956 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon …
Hobbes, Romance, and the Contract of Mimesis
It is worthy the observing that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death.... Revenge triumphs over death, love slights it, honour aspireth to it, grief flieth to it, fear preoccupateth it. Francis Bacon, “Of Death” This fight being the more cruel, since both Love and Hatred conspired to sharpen their humours, that hard it was to say whether Love with one trumpet, or Hatred with another, gave the lo…
Reinventing Romance, or the Surprising Effects of Sympathy
This study argues that English royalist prose romance of the 1650s should he read as a contribution to seventeenth-century debates about the role of the passions in forging political obligation. Taken together, Percy Herbert's Princess Cloria (1653-61), Richard Brathwaite's Panthalia (1659), and William Sales’ unfinished Theophania (1655), chart a trajectory from a politics of narrow self-interest — which contemporaries identified with Hobbes — t…
Hamlet or Hecuba: Carl Schmitt's Decision
This essay explores the importance of the early modern period for the work of the German jurist Carl Schmitt. It argues that Schmitt's misreading of Shakespeare and Hobbes can in turn shed light on Schmitt's own aestheticizing of politics
Machiavellian Rhetoric: From the Counter-Reformation to Milton
lady combing ("A Buffer for a Taboo, Combing," 1980).Although Navarrete mentions the sensuality of the poem in a passing reference to ter Horst's article, by concentrating on the Petrarchan nature of the conceit, he fails to emphasize enough the enormous thematic and linguistic changes that have taken place between the Spanish Renaissance and the Baroque.Thus, it is hard to agree with Navarrete when he writes that the "entire poem is based on rat…
Political Theology and Fiction in The King's Two Bodies
This essay argues that Ernst Kantorowicz's The King's Two Bodies is intended as a contribution to twentieth-century debates about political theology and that modern students of political theology can learn from Kantorowicz's association of political theology with legal fiction
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