Vital Strife: Sleep, Insomnia, and the Early Modern Ethics of Care by Benjamin C

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"Vital Strife is about the close yet puzzling relationship between sleep and the early modern ethics of care in works of 16th and 17th-century drama, poetry, and philosophy."--

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Vital Strife examines the close yet puzzling relationship between sleep and ethical care in early modernity. The plays, poems, and philosophical essays at the heart of this book-by Jasper Heywood, William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, John Milton, and Margaret Cavendish-explore the unconscious motions of corporeal life and the drowsy forms of sentience at the boundaries of human thought and intentionality. Benjamin Parris shows how these writers, although trained under the Renaissance humanist paradigm of attentive care, begin to dissolve the humanist coupling of virtue with vigilance by giving credence to the vital power of sleep. In contrast to humanist thinkers who equated sleep with carelessness, these writers draw on the ancient Stoic principle of oikeiosis-the process of orienting the living being toward its proper objects of care, beginning with itself-in asserting the value of sleep, while underscoring insomnia's threat to the ethical flourishing of persons and polity alike. Parris offers an important revaluation of Stoic philosophy, which has too often been misconstrued as renouncing feeling and sympathetic connection with others. With its striking new account of the reception of Stoicism and attitudes toward sleep and sleeplessness in early modern thought, Vital Strife reveals the period's mounting concern with the regenerative nature of physical life and its elaboration of a newfound ethics of care.

Author Biography

Benjamin Parris is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.

Review

Parris's book is well worth reading[.] An ofen brilliant and always stimulating meditation on Renaissance and early modern conceptions of sleep and wakefulness, it is a major and innovative contribution to literary history and historical ethics. * The Review of English Studies *Vital Strife offers specific and fascinating points of contact between The Faerie Queene and other early modern texts through the ethical conundrums raised by sleep, vigilance, and care. As a thorough reassessment of sleep's place in early modern literature and philosophy, this book uncovers a major issue too easily disguised as a minor one. * International Spenser Society's 2024 Isabel MacCaffrey Award Committee *

Details ISBN1501764500 Short Title Vital Strife Publisher Cornell University Press Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 1501764500 ISBN-13 9781501764509 Format Hardcover Subtitle Sleep, Insomnia, and the Early Modern Ethics of Care Audience Age 18 Imprint Cornell University Press Place of Publication Ithaca Country of Publication United States Pages 300 Publication Date 2022-08-15 AU Release Date 2022-08-15 NZ Release Date 2022-08-15 US Release Date 2022-08-15 UK Release Date 2022-08-15 Author Benjamin C. Parris Alternative 9781501764516 DEWEY 809.933561 Audience General We've got this

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