The Idolatrous State of Exception in John Donne's Poetry and Prose God's Extimacy: Divine Excess and Baroque Monads in the Poetry of Richard Crashaw Tarrying with Chaos: Radical Evil and John Milton's Paradise Lost God beyond Essence: The Event of Love in the Poetry and Prose of Thomas Traherne

This book offers the first sustained assessment of the ways in which recent contemporary philosophy and cultural theory - including the work of Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Eric Santner, Slavoj Zizek, and Alenka Zupancic - can illuminate Early Modern literature and culture.

PAUL CEFALU is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, Lafayette College, Pennysylvania, USA.