The Time is Out of Joint: Shakespeare as Philosopher of HistoryRowman & Littlefield, 2002 - 375 Seiten The Time Is Out of Joint handles the Shakespearean oeuvre from a philosophical perspective, finding that Shakespeare's historical dramas reflect on issues and reveal puzzles which were taken up by philosophy proper only in the centuries following them. Shakespeare's extraordinary handling of time and temporality, the difference between truth and fact, that of theory, and that of interpretation and revelatory truth are evaluated in terms of Shakespeare's own conjectural endeavors, and are compared with early modern, modern, and postmodern thought. Heller shows that modernity, which recognized itself in Shakespeare only from the time of Romanticism, found in Shakespeare's work a revelatory character which marked the end of both metaphysical system-building and a tragic reckoning with the inaccessibility of an absolute, timeless truth. Heller distinguishes the four stages found in constantly unique relation in Shakespeare's work (historical, personal, political, and existential) and probes their significance as time comes to fall 'out of joint' and may be again set aright. Rather than initially bestowing upon Shakespeare the dubious honorary title of philosopher, Heller probes the concretely situated reflections of characters who must face a blind and irrational fate either without taking responsibility for the discordance of time, or with a responsibility which may both transform history into politics, and set right the time which is out of joint. In the ruminations and undertakings of these characters, Shakespeare's dramas present a philosophy of history, a political philosophy, and a philosophy of (im)moral personality. Heller weighs each as distinctly modern confrontations with the possibility of truth and virtue within a human historical condition no less multifarious for its momentariness. |
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... entirely different kinds and directions of actions . It seems that faith in divine providence , although it might strengthen a character's moral resistance ( as in the case of Isabella in Measure for Measure ) , would diminish the ...
... entirely different kinds and directions of actions . It seems that faith in divine providence , although it might strengthen a character's moral resistance ( as in the case of Isabella in Measure for Measure ) , would diminish the ...
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... entirely different from all of our contemporaries . Yet , if we go into the pub on our street corner , we will meet exactly the same persons . Coriolanus , for example , is a Roman patrician through and through . He could not have said ...
... entirely different from all of our contemporaries . Yet , if we go into the pub on our street corner , we will meet exactly the same persons . Coriolanus , for example , is a Roman patrician through and through . He could not have said ...
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... entirely from myth and mythic individuality . Shakespeare's heroes and hero- ines are entirely different from all other characters ( frequently also from their other , former , or later selves ) , yet they are also always historically ...
... entirely from myth and mythic individuality . Shakespeare's heroes and hero- ines are entirely different from all other characters ( frequently also from their other , former , or later selves ) , yet they are also always historically ...
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... entirely in a dialogue . Frequently , the character presents his personality in a monologue or a dialogue ( or a few dialogues ) : the char- acters appear from different perspectives , different also for themselves , and the images do ...
... entirely in a dialogue . Frequently , the character presents his personality in a monologue or a dialogue ( or a few dialogues ) : the char- acters appear from different perspectives , different also for themselves , and the images do ...
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What Is Nature? What Is Natural? | 13 |
Who Am I? Dressing Up Stripping Naked | 31 |
Acting Playing Pretending Disguising | 55 |
The Absolute Strangers | 73 |
Judgment of Human Character To Betray and to Be Betrayed | 87 |
Love Sex Subversion Political Drama Family Drama | 97 |
The Sphinx Called Time | 115 |
Virtues and Vices Guilt Good and Evil | 141 |
Richard II | 161 |
1 2 and 3 Henry VI | 189 |
The Tragedy of King Richard III | 251 |
THREE ROMAN PLAYS | 277 |
Antony and Cleopatra | 335 |
Historical Truth and Poetic Truth | 333 |
About the Author | 341 |
THE HISTORY PLAYS | 159 |
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The Time Is Out of Joint: Shakespeare as Philosopher of History Agnes Heller Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2002 |
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