Shakespeare's Anti-Politics: Sovereign Power and the Life of the Flesh

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'.

Author: D. Gil
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 01/01/2013
Pages: 167
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.38d
ISBN: 9781349445981

About the Author

Daniel Juan Gil is the author of Before Intimacy: Asocial Sexuality in Early Modern England. He has written widely on cultural sociology, sexuality, religion, and the body, and his articles have appeared in prominent journals including ELH, Shakespeare Quarterly, Borrowers and Lenders and Common Knowledge.