{"product_id":"the-storm-at-sea-political-aesthetics-in-the-time-of-shakespeare-paperback","title":"The Storm at Sea: Political Aesthetics in the Time of Shakespeare - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristopher Pye\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Storm at Sea: Political Aesthetics in the Time of Shakespeare\u003c\/em\u003e counters a tradition of cultural analysis that judges considerations of aesthetic autonomy in the early modern context to be either anachronistic or an index of political disengagement. Pye argues that for a post-theocratic era in which the \u003cem\u003emise-en-forme\u003c\/em\u003e of the social domain itself was for the first time at stake, the problem of the aesthetic lay at the very core of the political; it is precisely through its engagement with the question of aesthetic autonomy that early modern works most profoundly explore their relation to matters of law, state, sovereignty, and political subjectivity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePye establishes the significance of a \"creationist\" political aesthetic-at once a discrete historical category and a phenomenon that troubles our familiar forms of historical accounting-and suggests that the fate of such an aesthetic is intimately bound up with the emergence of modern conceptions of the political sphere. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Storm at Sea\u003c\/em\u003e moves historically from Leonardo da Vinci to Thomas Hobbes; it focuses on Shakespeare and English drama, with chapters on \u003cem\u003eHamlet, Othello\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e A Winter's Tale\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as sustained readings of \u003cem\u003eAs You Like It, King Lear\u003c\/em\u003e, Thomas Kyd's \u003cem\u003eSpanish Tragedy\u003c\/em\u003e, and Christopher Marlowe's \u003cem\u003eDoctor Faustus\u003c\/em\u003e. Engaging political thinkers such as Carl Schmitt, Giorgio Agamben, Claude Lefort, and Roberto Esposito, \u003cem\u003eThe Storm at Sea\u003c\/em\u003e will be of interest to political theorists as well as to students of literary and visual theory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChristopher Pye\u003c\/strong\u003e is Class of 1924 Professor of English at Williams College. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Regal Phantasm: Shakespeare and the Politics of Spectacle\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Vanishing: Shakespeare, the Subject, and Early Modern Culture\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 02, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757893386528,"sku":"9780823265053","price":53.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/30f847a5550e8eb812caf5965c017980.webp?v=1780114195","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-storm-at-sea-political-aesthetics-in-the-time-of-shakespeare-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}