{"product_id":"stay-illusion-the-hamlet-doctrine-9780307950482","title":"Stay, Illusion!: The Hamlet Doctrine","description":"The figure of Hamlet haunts our culture like the Ghost haunts him. Arguably, no literary work, not even the Bible, is more familiar to us than Shakespeare's \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e. Everyone knows at least six words from the play; often people know many more. Yet the play--Shakespeare's longest--is more than \"passing strange\" and becomes deeply unfamiliar when considered closely. Reading Hamlet alongside other writers, philosophers, and psychoanalysts--Carl Schmitt, Walter Benjamin, Freud, Lacan, Nietzsche, Melville, and Joyce--Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster consider the political context and stakes of Shakespeare's play, its relation to religion, the movement of desire, and the incapacity to love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSimon Critchley\u003c\/b\u003e is Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. His many books include \u003ci\u003eVery Little . . . Almost Nothing, The Faith of the Faithless\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Dead Philosophers\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the series moderator of The Stone, a philosophy column in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, \u003c\/i\u003eto which he is a frequent contributor. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJamieson Webster\u003c\/b\u003e is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Life and Death of Psychoanalysis \u003c\/i\u003eand has written for \u003ci\u003eThe Aesthete\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eApology, Cabinet, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, Playboy, The New York Times, \u003c\/i\u003eand many psychoanalytic publications. She teaches at Eugene Lang College at the New School and supervises doctoral students in clinical psychology at the City University of New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50917547540754,"sku":"9780307950482","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d9e7c6cb-7f55-48c3-8c53-a045afc03d1b.jpg?v=1738867931","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/stay-illusion-the-hamlet-doctrine-9780307950482","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}