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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... grandeur, or the ability to become a new person. It is as if Shakespeare has put his own characters on trial, as if he himself wants to find out what a person would do with such a moment of sudden and deep insight. Edmund becomes a ...
... grandeur, or the ability to become a new person. It is as if Shakespeare has put his own characters on trial, as if he himself wants to find out what a person would do with such a moment of sudden and deep insight. Edmund becomes a ...
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... grandeur, and Brutus is at the top of the ladder of morality. One can observe similar hierarchies in come- dies, although here the two metaphorical ladders frequently merge into one, for grandeur is measured by a different yardstick in ...
... grandeur, and Brutus is at the top of the ladder of morality. One can observe similar hierarchies in come- dies, although here the two metaphorical ladders frequently merge into one, for grandeur is measured by a different yardstick in ...
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... grandeur.The happy men have vacant minds and only their bodies are full, whereas grandeur does not go with a full body but with a mind full ofpride, ideas, and plans.The body is never full, but the mind is. The tension is life itself ...
... grandeur.The happy men have vacant minds and only their bodies are full, whereas grandeur does not go with a full body but with a mind full ofpride, ideas, and plans.The body is never full, but the mind is. The tension is life itself ...
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... grandeur, so Hamlet would never prefer to keep the honor of his name and sacrifice conscience, intellect, introspection, complexity. Hamlet, as we learn at the end ofthe play, would Who Am I? Dressing Up, Stripping Naked 43.
... grandeur, so Hamlet would never prefer to keep the honor of his name and sacrifice conscience, intellect, introspection, complexity. Hamlet, as we learn at the end ofthe play, would Who Am I? Dressing Up, Stripping Naked 43.
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... grandeur, yet for the same reason he will never reach the top of the ladder of morality. It is the torn personali- ty, the intellectual refinement, the passionate and raging nature, and the pride all together that make Hamlet a ...
... grandeur, yet for the same reason he will never reach the top of the ladder of morality. It is the torn personali- ty, the intellectual refinement, the passionate and raging nature, and the pride all together that make Hamlet a ...
Inhalt
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Part II The History Plays
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Part III Three Roman Plays
| 279 |
Postscript Historical Truth and Poetic Truth
| 367 |
About the Author
| 375 |
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The Time is Out of Joint: Shakespeare as Philosopher of History Agnes Heller Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2002 |
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