A Politics of the Scene (Hardcover)

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.