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Stay, Illusion!: The Hamlet Doctrine

Stay, Illusion!: The Hamlet Doctrine - Paperback

by Simon Critchley, Jamieson Webster
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Availability:In StockContributor:Simon Critchley, Jamieson WebsterPublish date:2014-04-22Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780307950482ISBN-10:307950484UPC:9780307950482Book Category:Literary Criticism, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Shakespeare, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, TheaterBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:7.80 x 5.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4409Product ID:SC0DTHE32Y
The figure of Hamlet haunts our culture like the Ghost haunts him. Arguably, no literary work, not even the Bible, is more familiar to us than Shakespeare's Hamlet. Everyone knows at least six words from the play; often people know many more. Yet the play--Shakespeare's longest--is more than "passing strange" and becomes deeply unfamiliar when considered closely. Reading Hamlet alongside other writers, philosophers, and psychoanalysts--Carl Schmitt, Walter Benjamin, Freud, Lacan, Nietzsche, Melville, and Joyce--Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster consider the political context and stakes of Shakespeare's play, its relation to religion, the movement of desire, and the incapacity to love.
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780307950482ISBN-10:307950484UPC:9780307950482Book Category:Literary Criticism, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Shakespeare, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, TheaterBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:7.80 x 5.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4409Product ID:SC0DTHE32Y

Simon Critchley is Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. His many books include Very Little . . . Almost Nothing, The Faith of the Faithless, and The Book of Dead Philosophers. He is the series moderator of The Stone, a philosophy column in The New York Times, to which he is a frequent contributor.

Jamieson Webster is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She is the author of The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis and has written for The Aesthete, Apology, Cabinet, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, Playboy, The New York Times, and many psychoanalytic publications. She teaches at Eugene Lang College at the New School and supervises doctoral students in clinical psychology at the City University of New York.

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