{"product_id":"the-storm-at-sea-christopher-pye-9780823265046","title":"The Storm at Sea: Political Aesthetics in the Time of Shakespeare","description":"\u003cem\u003eThe Storm at Sea: Political Aesthetics in the Time of Shakespeare\u003c\/em\u003e counters a tradition of cultural analysis that judges considerations of aesthetic autonomy in the early modern context to be either anachronistic or an index of political disengagement. Pye argues that for a post-theocratic era in which the \u003cem\u003emise-en-forme\u003c\/em\u003e of the social domain itself was for the first time at stake, the problem of the aesthetic lay at the very core of the political; it is precisely through its engagement with the question of aesthetic autonomy that early modern works most profoundly explore their relation to matters of law, state, sovereignty, and political subjectivity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePye establishes the significance of a \"creationist\" political aesthetic-at once a discrete historical category and a phenomenon that troubles our familiar forms of historical accounting-and suggests that the fate of such an aesthetic is intimately bound up with the emergence of modern conceptions of the political sphere. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Storm at Sea\u003c\/em\u003e moves historically from Leonardo da Vinci to Thomas Hobbes; it focuses on Shakespeare and English drama, with chapters on \u003cem\u003eHamlet, Othello\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e A Winter's Tale\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as sustained readings of \u003cem\u003eAs You Like It, King Lear\u003c\/em\u003e, Thomas Kyd's \u003cem\u003eSpanish Tragedy\u003c\/em\u003e, and Christopher Marlowe's \u003cem\u003eDoctor Faustus\u003c\/em\u003e. Engaging political thinkers such as Carl Schmitt, Giorgio Agamben, Claude Lefort, and Roberto Esposito, \u003cem\u003eThe Storm at Sea\u003c\/em\u003e will be of interest to political theorists as well as to students of literary and visual theory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Pye\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823265048\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823265046\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/02\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2015","brand":"Christopher Pye","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46526210048255,"sku":"9780823265046","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_14fe8bf2-7167-46c5-9e3f-dae73e40ea8e.jpg?v=1737555510","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-storm-at-sea-christopher-pye-9780823265046","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}