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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... asks whether worldly events are governed by fortune or by God—that is, by necessity or chance on the one hand, or by providence on the other. He says, in the twenty-fifth chapter of The Prince,“that fortune is the ruler of half our ...
... asks whether worldly events are governed by fortune or by God—that is, by necessity or chance on the one hand, or by providence on the other. He says, in the twenty-fifth chapter of The Prince,“that fortune is the ruler of half our ...
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... ask this question. His history is not providential; in his his- tory, contingency rules amid regularities. In his history there is nothing paradoxical in the suffering of the innocent; it is the result of human wickedness, of tough luck ...
... ask this question. His history is not providential; in his his- tory, contingency rules amid regularities. In his history there is nothing paradoxical in the suffering of the innocent; it is the result of human wickedness, of tough luck ...
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... ask first whether Hamlet is right or wrong and accordingly grant his loyalty; rather, his loyalty comes first.When he sometimes does ask the question of right or wrong, his friendship remains intact irrespective of the answer. He is the ...
... ask first whether Hamlet is right or wrong and accordingly grant his loyalty; rather, his loyalty comes first.When he sometimes does ask the question of right or wrong, his friendship remains intact irrespective of the answer. He is the ...
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... asks questions about her own identity; she only asks about the identity of Hamlet. Ophelia becomes mad and dies because she cannot understand the world anymore. Shakespeare knows quite well what Nietzsche later said, that men can ...
... asks questions about her own identity; she only asks about the identity of Hamlet. Ophelia becomes mad and dies because she cannot understand the world anymore. Shakespeare knows quite well what Nietzsche later said, that men can ...
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... asks “Who am I?” for he takes for granted that he is a king and that this is not just all, but more than all.“Every inch a king,” he says even in act 5. It never occurs to him that power and authority are not identical.They were tradi ...
... asks “Who am I?” for he takes for granted that he is a king and that this is not just all, but more than all.“Every inch a king,” he says even in act 5. It never occurs to him that power and authority are not identical.They were tradi ...
Inhalt
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Part II The History Plays
| 161 |
Part III Three Roman Plays
| 279 |
Postscript Historical Truth and Poetic Truth
| 367 |
About the Author
| 375 |
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