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SHAKESPEAREAN GENEALOGIES OF POWER IBD

ROUTLEDGE
10 / 2010
9780415593441
Inglés

Sinopsis

Shakespearean Genealogies of Power proposes a new view on ShakespeareâÇÖs involvement with the legal sphere: as a visible space between the spheres of politics and law and well able to negotiate legal and political, even constitutional concerns, ShakespeareâÇÖs theatre opened up a new perspective on normativity. His plays reflect, even create, 'history' in a new sense on the premises of the older conceptions of historical and legal exemplarity: examples, cases, and instances are to be reflected rather than treated as straightforwardly didactic or salvific. Thus, what comes to be recognized, reflected and acknowledged has a disowning, alienating effect, whose enduring aftermath rather than its theatrical immediacy counts and remains effective. In Shakespeare, the law gets hold of its normativity as the problematic efficacy of unsolved - or rarely ever completely solved - problems: on the stage of the theatre, the law has to cope with a mortgage of history rather than with its own success story. The exemplary interplay of critical cultural and legal theory in theátwentieth-century - between Carl Schmitt and Hans Kelsen, Walter Benjamin and Ernst Kantorowicz, Hans Blumenberg and Giorgio Agamben, Robert Cover and Niklas Luhmann - found in ShakespeareâÇÖs plays its speculative instruments.

PVP
268,30