Ebook: Open Subjects: Renaissance Republicans, Modern Selfhoods and the Virtue of Vunerability (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture)

James Kuzner's original new study of writing by Spenser, Shakespeare, Marvell, and Milton presents a geneaology for the modern self that understands its republican origins far more radically than previous studies. He draws radical and republican thought into sustained conversation, locating an unexpected republic where vulnerability is as much what community has to offer as what community guards against. At a time when the drive to safeguard citizens has gathered momentum to justify almost any state action, Open Subjects questions whether vulnerability is the evil we so often believe it to be.