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The Hypocrisy of Signs
Inner Spaces, Language and Action in the Age of Early Modern Inquisitions
Series: - Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700, Volume: 13
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This book explores the tensions between text and speech, intention and action, individual conscience and the public sphere in the early modern period. It reclaims the hermeneutical foundation of hypocrisy as a key tool for assessing the gap between interiority and exteriority, which underpins these dyads. Secular and religious authorities of the time led unprecedented repressive campaigns that brought those tensions fully into view. Analyzing them offers new perspectives on the quandaries concerning action that arose at the threshold of modernity, as well as on the ways human behavior continues to be interpreted today.
David Sebastiani earned his Ph.D. in Modern European Literature, Art, and History from Scuola Normale Superiore. He is a researcher in early modern and modern cultural studies at the Department of Political Science, Università Roma Tre.
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 There Lies the Substance
2 The Liar Paradox
3 Practices of Hypocrisy
4 Weighing Hearts
5 Apophasis
6 Transcendent Objects
7 Dying for a Book
8 The Labour of Text
9 The Language of Action
10 Lives of Baltasar Perera
Conclusion
References
Index
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part 1: Word. The Grammars of Hypocrisy
1 There Lies the Substance
2 The Liar Paradox
3 Practices of Hypocrisy
4 Weighing Hearts
5 Apophasis
Part 2: Action. The Hypocrisy of Signs
6 Transcendent Objects
7 Dying for a Book
8 The Labour of Text
9 The Language of Action
10 Lives of Baltasar Perera
Conclusion
References
Index
This book is aimed at graduate students, researchers, and specialists in European cultural studies, literature, and Mediterranean history of the early modern period.