Staging Sovereignty Staging Sovereignty
Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture

Staging Sovereignty

Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy

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Descripción editorial

To become sovereign, one must be seen as sovereign. In other words, a sovereign must appear—philosophically, politically, and aesthetically—on the stage of power, both to themselves and to others, in order to assume authority. In this sense, sovereignty is a theatrical phenomenon from the very beginning.

This book explores the relationship between theater and sovereignty in modern political theory, philosophy, and performance. Arthur Bradley considers the theatricality of power—its forms, dramas, and iconography—and examines sovereignty’s modes of appearance: thrones, insignia, regalia, ritual, ceremony, spectacle, marvels, fictions, and phantasmagoria. He weaves together political theory and literature, reading figures such as Plato, Aristotle, Montaigne, Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Schmitt, Benjamin, Derrida, and Agamben alongside writers including Shakespeare, Cervantes, Schiller, Melville, Valéry, Kafka, Ionesco, and Genet.

Formally inventive and deeply interdisciplinary, Staging Sovereignty offers a surprising and original narrative of political modernity from early modern political theology to the age of neoliberal capitalism.

GÉNERO
Política y actualidad
DISPONIBLE
2024
26 de noviembre
IDIOMA
EN
Inglés
EXTENSIÓN
312
Páginas
EDITORIAL
Columbia University Press
VENDEDOR
Perseus Books, LLC

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