Emotional Significance and Predation’s Uneasy Conscience in John of Salisbury and Chrétien’s Perceval
In John of Salisbury’s 1159 Policraticus, as in Patrick Colm Hogan’s cognitive and Julia Kristeva’s psychoanalytic literary criticism, bodily vulnerability anchors human perception of significance, and so emotional life, in the pursuit of one’s own flourishing—and that of one’s in-group’s success. B...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2014
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Literature and theology
Year: 2014, Volume: 28, Issue: 3, Pages: 284-298 |
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| Summary: | In John of Salisbury’s 1159 Policraticus, as in Patrick Colm Hogan’s cognitive and Julia Kristeva’s psychoanalytic literary criticism, bodily vulnerability anchors human perception of significance, and so emotional life, in the pursuit of one’s own flourishing—and that of one’s in-group’s success. But in both cognitive and psychoanalytic accounts, and in John, oral-aggressive predatory dispositions and value systems are subject to constant disruption by non-egocentric modes of registering significance. Read through Hogan and Kristeva, John’s combined emotion theory and political theory illuminate how Chrétien’s 1180s Perceval links the politics of predatory self-advancement to forms of psychic entrapment that only dispositional and political respect for sociality and pluralism might undo. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/fru021 |