A Politics of the Scene

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 finally reckon with the world as a stage.

Author: Paul A. Kottman
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 12/13/2007
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.07h x 6.36w x 0.83d
ISBN: 9780804758345

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2008 pg. 334

About the Author
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.