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Buch, Englisch, 142 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 370 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare

Khan

The Death of Hamlet

A Counterfactual Reading of Shakespeare
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-73462-0
Verlag: Routledge

A Counterfactual Reading of Shakespeare

Buch, Englisch, 142 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 370 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare

ISBN: 978-1-032-73462-0
Verlag: Routledge


This book is an intervention in Hamlet scholarship. In Thus Spake Zarathustra (1885), Nietzsche famously posited the death of God, taken to mean the dissolution of all horizons within which human beings construct a plausible ontology that gives words significance. The idea of God, as a transcendental signified (to borrow from Derrida), underwrites meaning and values. Socrates placed knowing as the highest philosophical good over two millennia ago; however, once we find that God (i.e. any transcendental signified) is unknowable, the world vanishes. In a world bereft of concepts and meaning, Nietzsche’s philosophical project becomes one of “redeeming” pure willing as itself constitutive of world.

Hamlet and the criticism surrounding it is caught within competing horizons we know are circuitous and unending. We tiresomely make theoretical rounds between competing sets of interpretations that boil down to either establishing meaning within the play (the text transcending its history and revealing universal truths) or situating the text within its proper historical timeframe in order to get it to speak. In short, we are trapped between contextualizing and decontextualizing approaches. Yet we know both approaches, as competing horizons we commit to at the outset, are dead. But to abandon both at the outset means that the text, Hamlet, is itself dead. So how to get it to speak?

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Preface

1.     Overture, or How to Do Things with Greg

2.     Invisible Speech in Hamlet

3.     Ah Q and Hamlet: Materialism meets Modernity

4.     Hamlet as Conspirator: A Reading of Julius Caesar

5.     Timon of Athens and the Pursuit of Human Unhappiness

6.     Marxian Coda


Amir Khan is Associate Professor of English in the Foreign Studies College at Hunan Normal University in Changsha. His books include Shakespeare in Hindsight (2016) and Comedies of Nihilism (2017). He is also managing editor of Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies. He lives and works in China.



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