
Published online:
22 March 2012
Published in print:
28 June 2011
Online ISBN:
9780748651580
Print ISBN:
9780748642533
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Introduction Introduction
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Public Reason in Current Studies of Milton and Early Modern England Public Reason in Current Studies of Milton and Early Modern England
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Public Reason in Habermas and Foucault Public Reason in Habermas and Foucault
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Rational Delight; or, Paradise Rational Delight; or, Paradise
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Pleasing Sorcery: Public Reason in Milton’s Pandemonium Pleasing Sorcery: Public Reason in Milton’s Pandemonium
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Milton’s Place in the History of Publics and Republics Milton’s Place in the History of Publics and Republics
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Notes Notes
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Notes Notes
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Chapter
5 Habermas Goes to Hell: Pleasure, Public Reason and the Republicanism of Paradise Lost
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Kuzner, James, 'Habermas Goes to Hell: Pleasure, Public Reason and the Republicanism of Paradise Lost', Open Subjects: English Renaissance Republicans, Modern Selfhoods and the Virtue of Vulnerability (Edinburgh , 2011; online edn, Edinburgh Scholarship Online, 22 Mar. 2012), https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748642533.003.0006, accessed 3 May 2025.
Abstract
This chapter explains how Paradise Lost visualizes spaces for critical, yet susceptible, subjects. This is demonstrated using the lens of public sphere theory, especially that of Cicero, Jürgen Habermas, Michel Foucault, and John Milton. The chapter discusses Paradise Lost in late Foucaultian terms. It also argues that Milton's portrayals of Paradise and Pandemonium find value in coupling rational argument and sensual embrace, in the transitory world created by vulnerable subjects within the space of conversation, and in the pleasures of public argument.
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