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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>The Writing & Society Research Group<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Western Sydney</st1:PlaceName></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>is pleased to present<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><i><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic'>Justin Clemens</span></font></i> (<st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Melbourne</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>on <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Milton</span></b></st1:place></st1:City><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>'s true religion</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Friday 21 August, 11.00am-12.30pm<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Room 1.1.114, Building 1<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>(<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Main</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Building</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>) <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bankstown</st1:place></st1:City> campus<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>via the <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Henry
Lawson Drive</st1:address></st1:Street> exit of the M5<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>In a groundbreaking study of early-modern
republicanism, Philip Pettit makes a crucial distinction: republicanism opposes
freedom to slavery, and not to constraint. This distinguishes republicanism
from other kinds of political commitments that may seem to have a similar
animus (e.g., liberalism), because it separates 'domination' from
'interference.' For republicans, domination 'is exemplified by the relationship
of master to slave or master to servant,' and is therefore inherently
tyrannical; whereas interference, in the form of public law and government, is
necessary and desirable in any good republic. As the republican poet and
polemicist John Milton puts it: freedom demands 'liberty,' not 'license.' The
former of these requires a particular kind of obedience (true freedom comes
from submission to the law), whereas license, being arbitrary, unconstrained
action, is in fact nothing but another ruse of slavery. A tyrant is a person or
agency that is above the law, a sovereign exception. Such exceptionality has as
its fundamental physical correlate the power to torture at whim; such agents,
as <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Milton</st1:place></st1:City>
notes, find idolatry and censorship essential. This paper examines the
relationships between freedom of speech, idolatry and punishment in <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Milton</st1:place></st1:City>'s last published
pamphlet and poem: 'Of True Religion' and Paradise Lost.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>All welcome. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>www.uws.edu.au/writing_society <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Justin Clemens has written extensively on contemporary
continental philosophy and Australian art. Forthcoming books include 'The
Jacqueline Rose Reader', co-edited with Ben Naparstek, and '<st1:PersonName
w:st="on">Alain Badiou</st1:PersonName>: Key Concepts', co-edited with A.J.
Bartlett. His most recent book is 'Villain' (Hunter 2009), a collection of
poems. He teaches at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Melbourne</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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