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Marcos Antonio Norris implements Giorgio Agamben's notion of 'secularized theism' to resolve a critical disagreement among Hemingway scholars who have portrayed the writer as either a Roman Catholic or a secular existentialist. He argues that Hemingway is, properly speaking, neither a secularist nor a theist, but a 'secularised theist', whose 'religion' is practiced through sovereign decision making, which, in its most extreme form, includes the act of killing. This book resolves an important debate in Hemingway studies and uncovers fundamental similarities between theism and atheism, building upon the theoretical undertaking first introduced by Agamben and the Existentialists (EUP, 2021). Bringing Ernest Hemingway, Jean-Paul Sartre and Giorgio Agamben into close conversation, the author reconceptualises existentialism, issues a posthumanist critique of moral authoritarianism and advances an original interpretation of Hemingway as a secularised theist.
Contents
PART I: HEMINGWAY, SARTRE, AND THE SECULAR
An Introduction
A Word on Secularization
Hemingway as Religious Believer
Sartre as Religious Believer
Returning to Hemingway
Book Summary
PART II: SOVEREIGN DECISIONISM AND THE IMAGO DEI
The Failed Atheism of Jean-Paul Sartre
The Biographical Origins of Sartre's Failed Atheism
Agamben and the Creation of Mankind
Looking at Sartre Through Agamben's Eyes
Hemingway's Youth as an Oak Park Congregationalist
A Change in Hemingway's Religious Temperament
Hemingway the Existentialist
Hemingway the Catholic
Hemingway the Un/Believer
PART III: THE PROBLEM WITH HUMAN EXCEPTIONALISM
Approaching the Masculine in Hemingway's Fiction
On the Quai at Smyrna
Death in the Afternoon
Hemingway's Stance on Animal Equality
PART IV: HEMINGWAY'S MASCULINE HERO
There Are No Happy Endings
On the Use of Ritual
Suicide as Cowardice
The Faena, Or Becoming Like God
The Masculine, Existential Hero
Cause for Question in Hemingway's Posthumous Works
Conclusion: The Death of God, The Death of Man
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX