Stay, Illusion!: The Hamlet Doctrine

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.

Author: Simon Critchley, Jamieson Webster
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04/22/2014
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780307950482