The Time Is Out of Joint: Shakespeare as Philosopher of HistoryRowman & Littlefield Publishers, 23.07.2002 - 384 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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... Part II:The History Plays 9 Richard II 1, 2, and 3 HenryVI The Tragedy of King Richard III 15 33 57 75 5 89 99 117 143 163 191 253 12 13 14 Part III:Three Roman Plays Coriolanus Julius Caesar vii The Time Is Out of Joint : Contents.
... Part II:The History Plays 9 Richard II 1, 2, and 3 HenryVI The Tragedy of King Richard III 15 33 57 75 5 89 99 117 143 163 191 253 12 13 14 Part III:Three Roman Plays Coriolanus Julius Caesar vii The Time Is Out of Joint : Contents.
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... Julius Caesar Antony and Cleopatra Postscript: Historical Truth and Poetic Truth About the Author 281 311 337 367 375 Introduction the Shakespearean tragedies and history plays, and in many viii Contents.
... Julius Caesar Antony and Cleopatra Postscript: Historical Truth and Poetic Truth About the Author 281 311 337 367 375 Introduction the Shakespearean tragedies and history plays, and in many viii Contents.
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... (Julius Caesar). In this broader sense, all philosophical man- ifestations are contextual. The character “philosopher” also appears in Timon ofAthens, where Ape- mantus remains, similar to the Stoics, always true to himself.Yet, he is an ...
... (Julius Caesar). In this broader sense, all philosophical man- ifestations are contextual. The character “philosopher” also appears in Timon ofAthens, where Ape- mantus remains, similar to the Stoics, always true to himself.Yet, he is an ...
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... Julius Caesar as he walks to the capitol uncon- cerned about the ides of March. In Hamlet's case, fate and providence are mutually exclusive.To be born to put time right is Hamlet's fate, his des- tiny. He is an actor who has to answer ...
... Julius Caesar as he walks to the capitol uncon- cerned about the ides of March. In Hamlet's case, fate and providence are mutually exclusive.To be born to put time right is Hamlet's fate, his des- tiny. He is an actor who has to answer ...
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... Julius Caesar, and Antony and Cleopatra—all three Roman tragedies. I pro- ceed with my discussion following the actual historical sequence of the times covered in the plays, rather than in the order in which the plays were written ...
... Julius Caesar, and Antony and Cleopatra—all three Roman tragedies. I pro- ceed with my discussion following the actual historical sequence of the times covered in the plays, rather than in the order in which the plays were written ...
Inhalt
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Part II The History Plays
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Part III Three Roman Plays
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Postscript Historical Truth and Poetic Truth
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About the Author
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