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Hamlet or Hecuba. The Invasion of Time in the Play

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In this text, the German philosopher, legal scholar, and political theorist Carl Schmitt (1888–1985) appears in an unusual role. The book, "Hamlet or Hecuba," arose from a seminar organized for a small group of students and was published in 1956. Schmitt delves into the era of Shakespeare, analyzing the political situation of Elizabethan England and the figure of King James I, to unravel the mystery of the most unusual and atypical avenger in world literature, who fell victim to his own indecision. Familiar Schmittian motifs are woven into the discussion of Hamlet's problematic: the existential nature of political decision and its exceptional meaning, the problem of interpreting extraordinary experience, and the sovereign's right to interpret it in the only correct way. By dissecting one of Shakespeare's major tragedies, Schmitt reveals to us the secret layers of his own theory, speaks of the hidden, and forces us to rethink his teaching on law and politics.
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