Regina Schwartz asks why love is considered a 'soft' subject, fit for the arts but not for boardrooms, parliamentary debates, and courtrooms engaged in the 'serious' discourse of justice.
Regina Schwartz asks why love is considered a 'soft' subject, fit for the arts but not for boardrooms, parliamentary debates, and courtrooms engaged in the 'serious' discourse of justice.
Professor Regina Schwartz teaches literature, religious studies and law at Northwestern University. She has authored Remembering and Repeating: On Milton's Theology and Poetics (Cambridge, winner of the James Holly Hanford's Book Award). She co-edited Desire in the Renaissance, on English and Italian literature (Princeton). Her The Curse of Cain: The Violent Legacy of Monotheism, calls attention to the cultural uses of scripture to endorse violence (Chicago, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize). She also edited Transcendence: Philosophy, Literature and Theology Approach the Beyond (Routledge), The Book and the Text, The Bible and Literary Theory (Blackwell) and co-edited The Postmodern Bible (Yale). Her last book, When God Left the World: Sacramentality at the Dawn of Secularism explores the sacramental vision of justice that infuses the poetry, drama, and the wider culture of the English Reformation.
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I: The Experience of Love II: The Law of Love III: The Power of Love IV: The Economics of Love V: The Forgiveness of Love
