Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Notes on Contributors x
6. Introduction 1
7. Part One: The Play’s the Thing
8. 1 ‘The Charm Dissolves Apace’: Shakespeare and the Selfdissolution of Drama (The Tempest, Aristotle and Hegel) 17
9. 2 Hamlet and Kierkegaard on Outwitting Recollection (Hamlet and Kierkegaard’s Concluding Unscientific Postscript) 40
10. 3 Schopenhauer’s Shakespeare: The Genius on the World Stage 56
11. 4 Nietzsche’s Shakespeare 76
12. 5 Richard II’s Silent, Tortured Soul (Nietzsche, Merleau- Ponty, Jean-Luc Marion, and Levinas) 94
13. Part Two: That Wide Gap
14. 6 Is Othello Jealous? Coleridge and Russell contra Wittgenstein and Cavell 121
15. 7 Hamlet on the Edge (Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty) 136
16. 8 Levinas and Shakespeare 145
17. 9 Contra Schmitt: Law, Aesthetics and Absolutism in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale (Carl Schmitt) 152
18. 10 Arendt in Italy: Or, the Taming of the Shrew (Hannah Arendt, Giorgio Agamben and Roberto Esposito) 173
19. Part Three: Damnable Iteration
20. 11 Ship of Fools: Foucault and the Shakespeareans 195
21. 12 Antinomies of Desire: Lacanian Psychoanalysis and the Sonnets (Jacques Lacan and François Lyotard) 210
22. 13 ‘No’ as Affirmation: A Continental-Philosophical Reading of Coriolanus 236
23. 14 Provoking Philosophy: Shakespeare, Johnson, Wittgenstein, Derrida 247
24. 15 Miracle Play (Jacques Derrida) 271
25. Index 298