LEADER 03354oam 2200601I 450 001 9910787089303321 005 20190503073421.0 010 $a0-262-32605-1 010 $a0-262-32604-3 035 $a(CKB)3710000000226685 035 $a(OCoLC)889946339 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10919033 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001334292 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11776849 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001334292 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11406656 035 $a(PQKB)10643314 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3339850 035 $a(OCoLC)889946339$z(OCoLC)889930971$z(OCoLC)961584785$z(OCoLC)962644070 035 $a(OCoLC-P)889946339 035 $a(MaCbMITP)10101 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3339850 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10919033 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL640719 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000226685 100 $a20140904d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAll for nothing $eHamlet's negativity /$fAndrew Cutrofello 210 1$aCambridge, Massachusetts :$cThe MIT Press,$d[2014] 215 $a1 online resource (241 p.) 225 1 $aShort circuits 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-322-09468-3 311 $a0-262-52634-4 327 $aPrologue: how to philosophize with a Hamlet -- Hamlet's melancholy -- Hamlet's negative faith -- Hamlet's nihilism -- Hamlet's tarrying -- Hamlet's nonexistence -- Epilogue: determinate negation and its objective correlative. 330 $aA specter is haunting philosophy-- the specter of Hamlet. Why is this? Wherefore? What should we do?

Entering from stage left: the philosopher's Hamlet. The philosopher's Hamlet is a conceptual character, played by philosophers rather than actors. He performs not in the theater but within the space of philosophical positions. In All for Nothing, Andrew Cutrofello critically examines the performance history of this unique role. 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. What the figure of the Sophist represented for Plato, Hamlet has represented for modern philosophers. 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 and other philosophers. Whirling across a kingdom of infinite space, the philosopher's Hamlet is nothing if not thought-provoking. 410 0$aShort circuits. 606 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy 610 $aPHILOSOPHY/General 610 $aHUMANITIES/Literature & Criticism 615 0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy. 676 $a822.3/3 700 $aCutrofello$b Andrew$f1961-$01142605 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787089303321 996 $aAll for nothing$93817449 997 $aUNINA