The Writing and Society Research Group at the University of Western Sydney is pleased to present
Dimitris Vardoulakis on Shakespeare as a Critic of Hobbes Friday 3 September 11.00am-12.30pm Bankstown Building 1.1.114 via the Henry Lawson Drive exit of the M5 In this presentation, I propose to read Hamlet as propounding a critique of Hobbes' position about sovereignty. Even though the Leviathan was written half a century after Hamlet, still both works present parallel descriptions of the subject as the figure that is subjected both to the law of the sovereign and the law of nature. I will show that whereas the Leviathan requires a clear distinction between these elements, Hamlet destabilizes their distinction. Further, I will indicate how this seventeenth-century debate can inform contemporary discussions about biopolitics and bare life in Giorgio Agamben and Eric Santner. Dimitris Vardoulakis is lecturer at the University of Western Sydney. His books include The Doppelgänger: Literature's Philosophy (Fordham UP, 2010); as an editor Spinoza Now (U of Minnesota P, 2011); and as a co-editor After Blanchot (2005). All welcome. RSVP/info writ...@uws.edu.au
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