The Telos Press Podcast: Robert Miner on the Division of Work and Play in Adorno's Minima Moralia

In today’s episode of the Telos Press Podcast, Camelia Raghinaru talks with Robert Miner about his article “Human Joy and the Subversion of Work/Play Distinctions: A Note on Adorno’s Minima Moralia 2.84,” from Telos 191 (Summer 2020). An excerpt of the article appears here. If your university has an online subscription to Telos, you can read the full article at the Telos Online website. For non-subscribers, learn how your university can begin a subscription to Telos at our library recommendation page. Purchase a print copy of Telos 191 in our online store.

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Beyond Hamlet and Hecuba: Irruption and Play in Carl Schmitt’s Thought

Those who read Hamlet or Hecuba from the specialist’s standpoint have often found it naïve, and maybe with good reason. Yet I do not want to linger on its worth or faults as a critical essay; I would rather try to read Schmitt’s book in the same way that he read Hamlet, as an eccentric writing, not completely closed, that deals with a subject matter but revolves around another one: Hamlet or Hecuba is something more than a piece of literary criticism.

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