Shakespeare's anti-politics : sovereign power and the life of the flesh
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Shakespeare's anti-politics : sovereign power and the life of the flesh
（Palgrave Shakespeare studies）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 152-162) and index
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Description
Argues that Shakespeare is anti-political, dissecting the nature of the nation-state and charting a surprising form of resistance to it, using sovereign power against itself to engineer new forms of selfhood and relationality that escape the orbit of the nation-state. It is these new experiences that the book terms 'the life of the flesh'.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Historical Conditions of Possibility of the Life of the Flesh: Absolutism, Civic Republicanism and 'Bare Life' in Julius Caesar 2. The Life of the Condemned: The Autonomous Legal System and the Community of the Flesh in Measure for Measure 3. Unsettling the Civic Republican Order: The Face of Sovereign Power and the Fate of the Citizen in Othello 4. Life Outside the Law: Torture and the Flesh in King Lear Epilogue: The Afterlife of the Life of the Flesh Bibliography Index
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