Special Issue on Carl Schmitt's Hamlet or Hecuba
Carl Schmitt published his short Shakespeare book, Hamlet or Hecuba: The Intrusion of the Time into the Play, in 1956. Subsequently translated into French and Italian, a key segment appeared in English in Telos in 1987. In 2009, Telos Press published a full translation of Hamlet or Hecuba, an event celebrated and contextualized in this collection of essays. Contributors use the startling parameters instituted by the Schmitt-Shakespeare conjunction in order to address the relation of sovereignty to popular will, the ontological status of modernity, the role of myth in society, the representational structure of human existence, and the relation of art and theology to the public sphere. These discussions draw out the aesthetic and cultural aspects of Schmitt’s thought while also revealing the import of his methods for epistemology and ontology. Throughout these pages stands the striking figure of Hamlet himself, a longtime contributor to the life of German letters and an enduring emblem of the fortunes of literature read in tandem with philosophy and politics.
David Pan and Julia Reinhard Lupton
Introduction
Carsten Strathausen
Myth or Knowledge? Reading Carl Schmitt's Hamlet or Hecuba
Eric L. Santner
The Royal Remains: Carl Schmitt's Hamlet or Hecuba
Drew Daniel
"Neither Simple Allusions Nor True Mirrorings": Seeing Double with Carl Schmitt
Stephanie Frank
Re-imagining the Public Sphere: Malebranche, Schmitt's Hamlet, and the Lost Theater of Sovereignty
Katrin Trüstedt
Hecuba against Hamlet: Carl Schmitt, Political Theology, and the Stake of Modern Tragedy
Timothy Wong
Steward of the Dying Voice: The Intrusion of Horatio into Sovereignty and Representation
Aryeh Botwinick
Shakespeare in Advance of Hobbes: Pathways to the Modernization of the European Psyche as Charted in The Merchant of Venice
Stefan Hermanns
Introduction to Carl Schmitt's Foreword to Lilian Winstanley's Hamlet and the Scottish Succession
Carl Schmitt
Foreword to the German Edition of Lilian Winstanley's Hamlet and the Scottish Succession
Reviews
Christian J. Emden
Constitutional Theory, 1928: Carl Schmitt and the Rechtsstaat
