ARTSSCI 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Social Trinity, Retributive Justice
14 Aug 2020
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Julian of norwich, "revelations of divine love" (b) Monday: linking between suffering/mortality, womb/tomb, overall reflection on what it means for the logos to take flesh in a suffering body. Today: more critical aspects of her practices of knowledge. Question: what kind of critical power such a reading/practice brings, relation to genesis and leviathan. Sovereignty, importance in political theory and modern west. Julian talks about a political body; highly complex issue. Focus on two scandalous claims in her work: That sin is a nothing, and evil is a privation. Laughter of recognition/scorn, at the fiend (power of sin/evil overcome in her expression of divine love, in which she finds consolation) In her controversial statement that sin/evil can still be seen as "behovely" Element of representing prosecuting attorney as retributive justice. Power of the fiend: focused on fear, wrath, and blame/revenge. Julian suggests: waiting is a challenging practice to un-know these delusions, to overcome the fiend.
