Hamletics - Shakespeare, Kafka, BeckettAuthor :
Paperback
Published : Wednesday 6 December 2023
Description
One of Italy's best-known contemporary philosophers and leftists offers a literature-informed take on our contemporary political situation. During the dramatic course of the twentieth century, amid the clash of the titans which marked that era, humanity could still think in terms of partisan struggles in which large masses took sides against one another. The new millennium, by contrast, appears to have opened under the guise of generalized insecurity, which pertains not only to the historical and social situation, or to ones personal psychological predicament, but to our very being. The Earths current faltering and the twilight of every convention that might govern it-where roles, images, and languages become confused by a lack of direction and distance-were already powerfully prophesied in Shakespeares Hamlet, and later in the works of Kafka and Beckett. In Hamletics, Massimo Cacciari, one of Italys foremost philosophers and leftist political figures, establishes a dialogue between these fateful authors, exploring the relationship between European nihilism and the aporias of action in the present.
You may also like ...
by
Paperback
06 Dec 2023
Literature: history and criticism
€19.88
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Hardback
11 Jul 2022
Interfaith relations
€86.58
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Paperback
02 Jun 2022
Business and Management
€62.00
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Hardback
02 May 2022
Ethics and moral philosophy
€65.52
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
Reviews