Philosophical Readings of Shakespeare

Margherita Pascucci has a PhD from New York University, USA and a Doctor Philosophiae from Viadrina Universität, Germany. She was the Marie Curie Fellow at Royal Holloway, UK from 2008-2010. She is the author of three monographs in Italian Causa sui. Saggio sul capitale e il virtuale, La Potenza della povertà. Marx legge Spinoza, and Il Pensiero di Walter Benjamin. Un'Introduzione.

Introduction: Shakespeare and Philosophy 1. Allegory and the Combustion of Representation 2. This is I, Hamlet the Dane 3. Macbeth, multitudinous seas incarnadanine: A Grammar of Power, a Grammar of potentia 4. The Bloody Legislation 5. 'Thou art the thing itself' 6. Timon of Athens: 'Thou the common whore' 7. Conclusion