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Zusatztext "The brilliance and originality of this book consist specifically in its radical recasting of the metaphorical! figural use of 'theater' and 'drama.' 'Theory' and 'theater!' Kottman reminds us! come from the same etymological root. This splendid book should considerably interest both theorists and those attracted to the immediacy! particularity! and relationality of the theatrical experience." Informationen zum Autor Paul A. Kottman is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the New School, where he teaches at Eugene Lang College, the New School for Liberal Arts, and in Liberal Studies at the New School for Social Research. Klappentext Paul A. Kottman is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the New School, where he teaches at Eugene Lang College, the New School for Liberal Arts, and in Liberal Studies at the New School for Social Research. Zusammenfassung Kottman's readings of the drama of William Shakespeare and others against two major treatises in political philosophy-Plato's Republic and Hobbes's Leviathan-contest the figural ground from which political philosophy emerges and suggests how a Shakespearean sense of the 'scene' might open up new avenues for thinking about politics.
