All for Nothing: Hamlet's Negativity (Short Circuits) - Softcover

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A specter is haunting philosophy - the specter of Hamlet. Why is this? Wherefore? What should we do? The philosophers Hamlet personifies negativity. In Shakespeares play, Hamlets speech and action are characteristically negative; he is the melancholy Dane. Most would agree that he has nothing to be cheerful about. Philosophers have taken Hamlet to embody specific forms of negativity that first came into view in modernity. Cutrofello analyzes five aspects of Hamlets negativity: his melancholy, negative faith, nihilism, tarrying (which Cutrofello distinguishes from "delaying"), and nonexistence. Along the way, we meet Hamlet in the texts of Kant, Coleridge, Hegel, Marx, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Freud, Russell, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Benjamin, Arendt, Schmitt, Lacan, Deleuze, Foucault, Derrida, Badiou, Zizek, and other philosophers

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