All for Nothing: Hamlet's Negativity - Andrew Cutrofello

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Résumé :
A specter is haunting philosophy?the specter of Hamlet. Why is this? Wherefore? What should we do? The philosopher?s Hamlet personifies negativity. In Shakespeare?s play, Hamlet?s speech and action are characteristically negative; he is the melancholy Dane. Most would agree that he has nothing to be cheerful about. Philosophers have taken Hamlet to embody specific forms of negativity that first came into view in modernity. Cutrofello analyzes five aspects of Hamlet?s negativity: his melancholy, negative faith, nihilism, tarrying (which Cutrofello distinguishes from ?delaying?), and nonexistence. Along the way, we meet Hamlet in the texts of Kant, Coleridge, Hegel, Marx, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Freud, Russell, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Benjamin, Arendt, Schmitt, Lacan, Deleuze, Foucault, Derrida, Badiou, ?i?ek, and other philosophers

Biographie:
Andrew Cutrofello is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of Continental Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction and other books.