{"product_id":"shakespeares-political-spirit-negative-theology-and-the-disruption-of-power-hardback-9781009348249","title":"Shakespeare's Political Spirit; Negative Theology and the Disruption of Power (Hardback) 9781009348249","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eShakespeare's Political Spirit\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNegative Theology and the Disruption of Power\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReading Shakespeare's drama as a negative mode of political thought, Nicholas Luke reorients how we think about politics in Shakespeare.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNicholas Luke (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009348249, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 19 December 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e284 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 2.1 cm, 0.56 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eShakespeare's Political Spirit proposes a radical rethinking of the political in Shakespeare. Writing against traditional positivist approaches, Luke's revisionary critical practice recuperates the negativity staged in political disruptions, contradictions, defeats, and failures and thereby opens Shakespeare's plays to a surprising, yet compelling array of hopeful political and social imaginaries. Howard Marchitello, University Professor of English, Rutgers University-Camden\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis exciting and challenging study reorients how we think about politics in Shakespeare and on the early modern stage. By reading Shakespeare's political drama as a negative mode of political experience and thought, Nicholas Luke allows us to appreciate the imaginative and disruptive elements of plays that might seem politically pessimistic. Drawing on a long religious and philosophical tradition of negativity and considering the writings of Hegel, Kierkegaard, Benjamin, Adorno, Derrida and Badiou, Luke pursues a phenomenology of political spirit that looks to the creative potential of experiences of failure, haunting, estrangement, impasse and dream. Through his notion of a negative political theology, he challenges traditional understandings of political theology and shows that Shakespeare's drama of negativity is more than a form of pessimistic critique, but rather a force of freedom and invention that animates the political imaginations of its audience.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Jack Cade in a time of protest\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Spirit of Caesar and the second circle\u003cbr\u003e 3. Coriolanus and the work of Spirit\u003cbr\u003e 4. Not to be – to be: Hamlet, Kierkegaard, and the Eternal in time\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Tempest and the Spirit of the Air\u003cbr\u003e Afterword\u003cbr\u003e Works cited\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52501204500760,"sku":"9781009348249","price":73.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009348249i.jpg?v=1786217031","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/shakespeares-political-spirit-negative-theology-and-the-disruption-of-power-hardback-9781009348249","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}