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A Politics of the Scene - Kottman, Paul A.
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Juxtaposing readings of three plays of William Shakespeare and two major treatises in political philosophy-Plato's Republic and Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan-Kottman contests 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. A Politics of the Scene builds especially on the reflections of Hannah Arendt and offers a speculative approach to politics that abandons taxonomical and scientific ambitions in order to ...

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A Politics of the Scene 2007, Stanford University Press, Palo Alto

ISBN-13: 9780804758345

Hardcover