- 144 pages
- English
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About This Book
One of Italy's best-known contemporary philosophers and leftists offers a literature-informed take on our contemporary political situation. During the dramatic course of the twentieth century, amid the clash of the titans which marked that era, humanity could still think in terms of partisan struggles in which large masses took sides against one another. The new millennium, by contrast, appears to have opened under the guise of generalized insecurity, which pertains not only to the historical and social situation, or to one's personal psychological predicament, but to our very being. The Earth's current faltering and the twilight of every convention that might govern itâwhere roles, images, and languages become confused by a lack of direction and distanceâwere already powerfully prophesied in Shakespeare's Hamlet, and later in the works of Kafka and Beckett. In Hamletics, Massimo Cacciari, one of Italy's foremost philosophers and leftist political figures, establishes a dialogue between these fateful authors, exploring the relationship between European nihilism and the aporias of action in the present.
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- Cacciariâs Copyright page
- TRANSLATORâS FOREWORD The Aporias of Action
- Translatorâs Acknowledgements
- Authorâs Note
- ONE The Spectre of Action
- TWO Castles
- THREE After the Last Day
- APPENDIX The Broken Parable
- BIBLIOGRAPHY