Foreword by Michael Witmore. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Part One. The play's the thing: Richard II's silent, tortured soul (Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Luc Marion, and Levinas) / James A. Knapp. Hamlet and Kierkegaard on outwitting recollection (Hamlet and Kierkegaard's Concluding unscientific postscript) / Jennifer Ann Bates -- Schopenhauer's Shakespeare : the genius on the world stage / Tom Stern -- Nietzsche's Shakespeare / Peter Holbrook -- Richard II's silent, tortured soul (Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Luc Marion, and Levinas) / James A. Knapp. Part Two. That wide gap: Arendt in Italy: or, The taming of the shrew (Hannah Arendt, Giorgio Agamben and Roberto Esposito) / Julia Reinard Lupton. Hamlet on the edge (Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty) / Edward S. Casey -- Levinas and Shakespeare / Howard Caygill -- Contra Schmitt : law, aesthetics, and absolutism in Shakespeare's The winter's tale (Carl Schmitt) / Christopher Pye -- Arendt in Italy: or, The taming of the shrew (Hannah Arendt, Giorgio Agamben and Roberto Esposito) / Julia Reinard Lupton. Part Three. Damnable iteration: Miracle play (Jacques Derrida) / Nicholas Royle. Antinomies of desire : Lacanian psychoanalysis and the Sonnets (Jacques Lacan and Francʹois Lyotard) / Catherine Belsey -- 'No' as affirmation : a continental-philosophical reading of Coriolanus / Berhard Freydberg -- Provoking philosophy : Shakespeare, Johnson, Wittgenstein, Derrida / Christopher Norris -- Miracle play (Jacques Derrida) / Nicholas Royle.
Summary:
This collection of 15 essays by celebrated authors in Shakespeare studies and in continental philosophy develops different aspects of the interface between continental thinking and Shakespeare's plays. The authors draw from current continental philosophy (e.g. Lacan, Foucault, Derrida) as well as from the 19th century continental tradition (e.g. Hegel, Kierkegaard) and from the early roots of continental tradition (e.g. Aristotle, Ibn Sina). The chapters address the span of the tragedies, comedies and history plays in the light of thinkers as diverse as Aristotle, Ibn Sina and Jean-Luc Marion, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Schmitt, Arendt, Lacan, Levinas, Foucault and Derrida.--Provided by publisher.
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