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Shakespeare between Machiavelli and Hobbes
- Dead Body Politics
Engelsk Hardback
Shakespeare between Machiavelli and Hobbes
- Dead Body Politics
Engelsk Hardback

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Shakespeare between Machiavelli and Hobbes explores Shakespeare’s political outlook by comparing some of the playwright’s best-known works to the works of Italian political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli and English social contract theorist Thomas Hobbes. By situating Shakespeare ‘between’ these two thinkers, the distinctly modern trajectory of the playwright’s work becomes visible. Throughout his career, Shakespeare interrogates the divine right of kings, absolute monarchy, and the metaphor of the body politic. Simultaneously he helps to lay the groundwork for modern politics through his dramatic explorations of consent, liberty, and political violence. We can thus understand Shakespeare’s corpus as a kind of eulogy: a funeral speech dedicated to outmoded and deficient theories of politics. We can also understand him as a revolutionary political thinker who, along with Machiavelli and Hobbes, reimagined the origins and ends of government. All three thinkers understood politics primarily as a response to our mortality. They depict politics as the art of managing and organizing human bodies—caring for their needs, making space for the satisfaction of desires, and protecting them from the threat of violent death. This book features new readings of Shakespeare’s plays that illuminate the playwright’s major political preoccupations and his investment in materialist politics.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
190
ISBN-13:
9781498514071
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1498514073
Udg. Dato:
29 aug 2016
Længde:
19mm
Bredde:
158mm
Højde:
239mm
Forlag:
Lexington Books
Oplagsdato:
29 aug 2016
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