Shakespeare's Political Spirit
Negative Theology and the Disruption of Power
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2024
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-34824-9 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-34824-9 (ISBN)
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Reading Shakespeare's drama as a negative mode of political experience and thought, Nicholas Luke reorients how we think about politics in Shakespeare. He draws on a long religious and philosophical tradition to develop an original notion of negative political theology, establishing Shakespeare's drama as a force of freedom and creativity.
This exciting and challenging study reorients how we think about politics in Shakespeare and on the early modern stage. By reading Shakespeare's political drama as a negative mode of political experience and thought, Nicholas Luke allows us to appreciate the imaginative and disruptive elements of plays that might seem politically pessimistic. Drawing on a long religious and philosophical tradition of negativity and considering the writings of Hegel, Kierkegaard, Benjamin, Adorno, Derrida and Badiou, Luke pursues a phenomenology of political spirit that looks to the creative potential of experiences of failure, haunting, estrangement, impasse and dream. Through his notion of a negative political theology, he challenges traditional understandings of political theology and shows that Shakespeare's drama of negativity is more than a form of pessimistic critique, but rather a force of freedom and invention that animates the political imaginations of its audience.
This exciting and challenging study reorients how we think about politics in Shakespeare and on the early modern stage. By reading Shakespeare's political drama as a negative mode of political experience and thought, Nicholas Luke allows us to appreciate the imaginative and disruptive elements of plays that might seem politically pessimistic. Drawing on a long religious and philosophical tradition of negativity and considering the writings of Hegel, Kierkegaard, Benjamin, Adorno, Derrida and Badiou, Luke pursues a phenomenology of political spirit that looks to the creative potential of experiences of failure, haunting, estrangement, impasse and dream. Through his notion of a negative political theology, he challenges traditional understandings of political theology and shows that Shakespeare's drama of negativity is more than a form of pessimistic critique, but rather a force of freedom and invention that animates the political imaginations of its audience.
Nicholas Luke is an Assistant Professor in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong. His first book, Shakespearean Arrivals: The Birth of Character, was published with Cambridge University Press in 2018.
Introduction; 1. Jack Cade in a time of protest; 2. The Spirit of Caesar and the second circle; 3. Coriolanus and the work of Spirit; 4. Not to be – to be: Hamlet, Kierkegaard, and the Eternal in time; 5. The Tempest and the Spirit of the Air; Afterword; Works cited; Index.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.11.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-34824-8 / 1009348248 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-34824-9 / 9781009348249 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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