To Be or Knot to Be
Adam Phillips, 10 October 2013
The Hamlet Doctrine
by Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster.
Verso, 269 pp., £14.99, September 2013,978 1 78168 256 2 Show More
by Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster.
Verso, 269 pp., £14.99, September 2013,
“... In The Birth of Tragedy Nietzsche gives what Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster call a ‘fascinating short interpretation’ of Hamlet, from which they take their title. They don’t think much of the book up to that point: it’s when he gets to Hamlet, they argue, that Nietzsche wakes up. This isn’t a view everyone would share, but it’s of a piece with the many assured judgments they make about Hamlet in the play with the most canonically self-doubting hero ... ”