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Provoked by Hazlitt, this chapter discusses Hamlet as a spectating figure. For many like Carl Schmitt Hamlet’s inability to decide constitutes a failure of leadership and character—of practical capacity of moral development—and is indicative of what ails modern society. Strategy becomes the capacity to decide, to declare, with the sovereign, what counts and when. Yet Hamlet is far from such a failure. Indeed it is through Hamlet that we witness a figure somehow able to spectate and therefore judge in conditions where others would capitulate to the ease of a decision. In this way, Shakespeare presents a character whose attempts to consider and reconsider himself outside of the comforts of his assigned role as a prince and leader constitute a form of strategic self presentation that is almost peerless in its energy and force.
Title: Hamlet
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Provoked by Hazlitt, this chapter discusses Hamlet as a spectating figure.
For many like Carl Schmitt Hamlet’s inability to decide constitutes a failure of leadership and character—of practical capacity of moral development—and is indicative of what ails modern society.
Strategy becomes the capacity to decide, to declare, with the sovereign, what counts and when.
Yet Hamlet is far from such a failure.
Indeed it is through Hamlet that we witness a figure somehow able to spectate and therefore judge in conditions where others would capitulate to the ease of a decision.
In this way, Shakespeare presents a character whose attempts to consider and reconsider himself outside of the comforts of his assigned role as a prince and leader constitute a form of strategic self presentation that is almost peerless in its energy and force.
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