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The Hamlet Doctrine: Knowing Too Much, Doing Nothing

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By (author): Jamieson Webster Simon Critchley

Arguably, no literary work is more familiar to us than Shakespeare's most famous tragedy. Everyone can quote at least six words from the play; often people know many more.

In this riveting and thought-provoking re-examination, philosopher Simon Critchley and psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster explore Hamlet's continued relevance for a modern world no less troubled by existential anxieties than Elizabethan London.

Reading the drama alongside writers, philosophers and psychoanalysts-Schmitt, Benjamin, Freud, Lacan, Nietzsche, Melville, and Joyce-the authors delve into the politics of the era, the play's relationship to religion, the exigencies of desire and the incapacity to love. It is an intellectual investigation that leads to a startling conclusion: Hamlet is a play about nothing in which Ophelia emerges as the true hero.

From the illusion of theatre and the spectacle of statecraft to the psychological theatre of inhibition and emotion, what Hamlet makes manifest is the modern paradox of our lives: where we know, we cannot act.
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Product Details
  • Weight: 467g
  • Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
  • Publication Date: 10 Sep 2013
  • Publisher: Verso Books
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781781682562

About Jamieson WebsterSimon Critchley

Simon Critchley is the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. He also teaches at Tilburg University and the European Graduate School. His many books include Very Little . Almost Nothing; Infinitely Demanding; The Faith of the Faithless; and The Book of Dead Philosophers (which made the New York Times bestseller list). He is 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: On Unconscious Desire and Its Sublimation. She has written for Apology Cabinet magazine the New York Times and many psychoanalytic publications. She teaches at Eugene Lang College and supervises doctoral students in clinical psychology at the City University of New York

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