Cover of Simon Critchley, Jamieson Webster: Stay, Illusion!

Simon Critchley, Jamieson Webster Stay, Illusion!

The Hamlet Doctrine

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Random House Inc

USA

2014

Paperback

288

Standard

270916

978-0-307-95048-2

0-307-95048-4

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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.

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