Shakespeare's Anti-Politics

Sovereign Power and the Life of the Flesh

D. Gil (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

167 Seiten

2013
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-27500-4 (ISBN)

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Argues that Shakespeare is anti-political, dissecting the nature of the nation-state and charting a surprising form of resistance to it, using sovereign power against itself to engineer new forms of selfhood and relationality that escape the orbit of the nation-state. It is these new experiences that the book terms 'the life of the flesh'.

Daniel Juan Gil is the author of Before Intimacy: Asocial Sexuality in Early Modern England. He has written widely on cultural sociology, sexuality, religion, and the body, and his articles have appeared in prominent journals including ELH, Shakespeare Quarterly, Borrowers and Lenders and Common Knowledge.

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Historical Conditions of Possibility of the Life of the Flesh: Absolutism, Civic Republicanism and 'Bare Life' in Julius Caesar 2. The Life of the Condemned: The Autonomous Legal System and the Community of the Flesh in Measure for Measure 3. Unsettling the Civic Republican Order: The Face of Sovereign Power and the Fate of the Citizen in Othello 4. Life Outside the Law: Torture and the Flesh in King Lear Epilogue: The Afterlife of the Life of the Flesh Bibliography Index

Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Shakespeare Studies
Zusatzinfo	VI, 167 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-137-27500-6 / 1137275006
ISBN-13	978-1-137-27500-4 / 9781137275004
Zustand	Neuware