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Arthur Bradley, "Staging Sovereignty: Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy" (Columbia UP, 2024)

2025/1/15
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Arthur Bradley: 这本书探索了政治理论、哲学和表演中戏剧与主权之间的关系，考察了权力、戏剧性和主权的展现方式，并通过对从柏拉图到阿甘本等思想家以及莎士比亚到热奈等作家的作品分析，论证了理论与戏剧的相互构成性。本书的写作形式也具有表演性和戏剧性，通过对王座、圣油等政治象征物和道具的分析，展现了政治的内在戏剧性，以及从‘主权剧场’到‘主权的剧场’的转变。 在当代政治语境中，这种戏剧性体现在人们对政治人物真实性和叙事能力的矛盾态度上，以及民主制度中权力空位的潜在不稳定性。非西方案例，例如恩古吉·瓦·提安哥的作品，则提供了对‘空虚空间’这一概念的另类解读。 本书的写作方法并非传统学术研究的线性叙事，而是通过对特定政治象征物的分析，展现了政治的内在戏剧性，以及从‘主权剧场’到‘主权的剧场’的转变。 我未来的研究方向是政治尸体，将从霍布斯、卢梭到弗洛伊德等思想家的作品中，探讨政治尸体作为现代性诞生隐喻的意义。 Aileen Zhou: 作为访谈者，我没有提出具体的观点，而是通过提问引导Arthur Bradley阐述其观点，并对他的观点进行总结和概括。

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Professor Bradley, a comparative literature professor, discusses the origins of his book, "Staging Sovereignty." He explains his interdisciplinary approach, combining literature, political theory, and philosophy, and his inspiration from the theatrical experience.
  • Interdisciplinary approach combining literature, political theory, and philosophy
  • Inspiration from personal experience of theater
  • Book as an expression of diverse interests

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Staging Sovereignty: Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy) (Columbia University Press, 2024) explores the relationship between theater and sovereignty in modern political theory, philosophy, and performance. Author Arthur Bradley) considers the theatricality of power—its forms, dramas, and iconography—and examines sovereignty’s modes of appearance: thrones, insignia, regalia, ritual, ceremony, spectacle, marvels, fictions, and phantasmagoria. He weaves together political theory and literature, reading figures such as Plato, Aristotle, Montaigne, Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Schmitt, Benjamin, Derrida, and Agamben alongside writers including Shakespeare, Cervantes, Schiller, Melville, Valéry, Kafka, Ionesco, and Genet.

Arthur Bradley is professor of comparative literature at Lancaster University. His most recent book is Unbearable Life: A Genealogy of Political Erasure (Columbia, 2019).

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