Overview

Essays by leading authors on Shakespeare drawing on contemporary and early continental philosophy 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. Key Features: The blend of new work (10 unpublished essays) and classic position papers (5 reprints) provides a thorough overview of Shakespeare and continental thoughtSheds new light on Shakespeare and on continental philosophyAuthors in the collection are leaders in each discipline in the US and UK / Europe and include: Edward S. Casey, Howard Caygill, Paul A Kottman, Julia Reinhard Lupton, Christopher Norris, Nicholas Royle, Catherine Belsey.

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Author:   Jennifer Ann Bates (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Duquesne University) ,  Richard Wilson (Sir Peter Hall Professor of Shakespeare Studies, Kingston University)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.491kg
ISBN:  

9780748695591

ISBN 10:   0748695591
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   10 September 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Michael Witmore; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Richard Wilson; Part I: The Play's The Thing; 1. Paul Kottmann: ""'The Charm Dissolves Apace:"" Shakespeare and the Self-dissolution of Drama' (The Tempest, Aristotle and Hegel); 2. Jennifer Ann Bates: 'Hamlet and Kierkegaard on Outwitting Recollection' (Hamlet and Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postcscript); 3. Thomas Stern: 'Schopenhauer's Shakespeare: The Genius on the World Stage'; 4. Peter Holbrook: 'Nietzsche's Shakespeare'; 5. James A. Knapp: 'Richard Il's Silent, Tortured Soul' (Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Luc Marion, and Levinas); Part II: That Wide Gap; 6. Andrew Cutrofello: 'Is Othello Jealous? Coleridge and Russell contra Wittgenstein and Cavell'; 7. Edward S. Casey: 'Hamlet on the Edge' (Hamlet, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty); 8. Howard Caygill: 'Levinas and Shakespeare'; 9. Christopher Pye: 'Contra Schmitt: Law, Aesthetics, and Absolutism in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale' (Carl Schmitt); 10. Julia Reinhard Lupton 'Arendt in Italy: Or, the Taming of the Shrew' (Hannah Arendt, Giorgio Agamben and Roberto Esposito); Part III: Damnable Iteration; 11. Richard Wilson: 'Ship of Fools: Foucault and the Shakespeareans; 12. Catherine Belsey: 'Antinomies of Desire: Lacanian Psychoanalysis and the Sonnets' (Jacques Lacan and Francois Lyotard); 13. Bernard Freydberg ""'No"" as Affirmation: A Continental-Philosophical Reading of Coriolanus'; 14. Christopher Norris: 'Provoking Philosophy: Shakespeare, Johnson, Wittgenstein, and Derrida'; 15. Nicholas Royle 'Miracle Play' (Jacques Derrida).

Reviews

The contributors are all of high caliber and the essays are adventurous, refreshing and wide-ranging in their appeal. The book will make a substantial contribution to the task of exploring Shakespeare as a critical thinker, whose dramas perform conceptual work of the first order. This is a break with both the dominance of ""theory"" and with historicism. --Sarah T Beckwith, Duke University

"The contributors are all of high caliber and the essays are adventurous, refreshing and wide-ranging in their appeal. The book will make a substantial contribution to the task of exploring Shakespeare as a critical thinker, whose dramas perform conceptual work of the first order. This is a break with both the dominance of ""theory"" and with historicism. --Sarah T Beckwith, Duke University"

Author Information

Jennifer Bates is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University. She specialises in 19th-Century German Philosophy with an emphasis on Hegel. She is the author of two books: Hegel's Theory of Imagination (SUNY, 2004) and Hegel and Shakespeare on Moral Imagination (SUNY, 2010). Richard Wilson is Sir Peter Hall Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Kingston University, London, and the author of Free Will: Art and power on Shakespeare’s stage; Shakespeare in French Theory: King of Shadows; Secret Shakespeare: Essays on theatre, religion and resistance; and Will Power: Studies in Shakespearean authority. He was described by the critic A.D, Nuttall as ‘perhaps the most brilliant of the Shakespearean historicists’.

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