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Deconstruction
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Jacques Derrida
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Shakespeare and Philosophy
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William Shakespeare
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- ISBN 9781474409872
- Weight: 546g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2020
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Explores Jacques Derrida’s distinctive approach to Shakespeare
Offers the first comprehensive and accessible account and discussion of Derrida’s engagement with ShakespeareChallenges the way we have traditionally come to think about the interdisciplinary relationship between literature and philosophy, as well as literary geniusContextualises Derrida’s readings of Shakespeare within his wider philosophical project and discusses in how far they relate to – or are distinct from – his engagement with other dramatic or literary works
This book brings to light Derrida’s rich and thought-provoking discussions of Shakespearean drama. Contextualising Derrida’s readings of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice and King Lear within his wider philosophical project, Alfano explores what draws Derrida to Shakespeare and what makes him particularly suitable for philosophical thought. The author also makes the case for Derrida’s singular understanding of the relationship between philosophy and Shakespeare and his radical idea of what literary genius is.
Chiara Alfano is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Kingston University. Previously, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh. She has published four peer-reviewed articles, three of them on Derrida, and is the co-editor of Desire in Ashes: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy (forthcoming with Bloomsbury in 2015). She is also reviews editor at The Oxford Literary Review.
