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Staging Sovereignty eBook

Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy

by Arthur Bradley
language: english
Publisher: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS, November of 2024 ‧
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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.

Staging Sovereignty

Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy

by Arthur Bradley

Property Description
ISBN: 9780231561693
Publisher: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: November of 2024
Language: English
Format: eBook
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Collection: Insurrections: Critical Studies In Religion, Politics, And Culture
Categories: eBooks in English > Art > Performing Arts
eBooks in English > Politics > Politics in General
EAN: 9780231561693
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