Staging Sovereignty - Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy

This book explores the relationship between theater and sovereignty in modern political theory, philosophy, and performance.

List of contents

Preface: Camera Obscura
Introduction: In the Antitheater of Sovereignty
1. In the Chair: Shakespeare, Kant, Bacon, Ionesco
2. Anointed with Oil: Shakespeare, Milton, Melville
3. Behind the Curtain: Hobbes, Benjamin, Derrida, Deleuze
4. In the Antechamber: Schiller, Kafka, Benjamin, Schmitt
5. Under the Clothes: Montaigne, Kafka, Genet, Agamben
6. Inside the Puppet Theater: Cervantes, Hobbes, Benjamin, Derrida
7. In the Crowd: Jarry, Le Bon, Kelsen, Foucault
Conclusion: In the Empty Space
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Arthur Bradley is professor of comparative literature at Lancaster University. His most recent book is Unbearable Life: A Genealogy of Political Erasure (Columbia, 2019).

Summary

This book explores the relationship between theater and sovereignty in modern political theory, philosophy, and performance.

Product details

• Authors: Arthur Bradley, Bradley Arthur
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2024
• EAN: 9780231217330
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21733-0
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; History, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, Theatre Studies, social and political philosophy, Literary theory, political science; performing arts; philosophy