Stay Illusion! The Hamlet Doctrine

Resumen del libro

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.

Biografía del autor

Estudió Filosofía y fue profesor en universidades de Francia, Australia, Noruega, Estados Unidos y Suiza. Actualmente ocupa la cátedra Hans Jonas en la New School for Social Research de Nueva York y es director de la fundación Onassis. Es uno de los filósofos más interesantes y eclécticos del siglo xxi. En Sexto Piso hemos publicado Bowie (2016), En qué pensamos cuando pensamos en fútbol (2017) y Misticismo (2025).