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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... one's self, and which afterwards are not persisted in, but are exchanged for measures as useful to the subjects as possible. Cruelties ill committed are those, which, although at first few, increase rather than diminish in time.”This is ...
... one's self, and which afterwards are not persisted in, but are exchanged for measures as useful to the subjects as possible. Cruelties ill committed are those, which, although at first few, increase rather than diminish in time.”This is ...
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... one's honor and name is translated into the lan- guage ofprophesying, cursing, or solemn prediction. Men and women who are on the verge of death, who are devastated or impoverished or in utmost misery, are like beggars asking for alms ...
... one's honor and name is translated into the lan- guage ofprophesying, cursing, or solemn prediction. Men and women who are on the verge of death, who are devastated or impoverished or in utmost misery, are like beggars asking for alms ...
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... one's face upward or casts glances down to the earth alone. In politics, Shakespeare believes, one should not lift one's face only up to the heavens, because the political stage is down here, not up there. But it is better to lift one's ...
... one's face upward or casts glances down to the earth alone. In politics, Shakespeare believes, one should not lift one's face only up to the heavens, because the political stage is down here, not up there. But it is better to lift one's ...
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Shakespeare as Philosopher of History Agnes Heller. But it is better to lift one's face upward from time to time, to measure one's action also by the laws of the King of Kings, the Judge.There is no tran- scendent stage, no divine ...
Shakespeare as Philosopher of History Agnes Heller. But it is better to lift one's face upward from time to time, to measure one's action also by the laws of the King of Kings, the Judge.There is no tran- scendent stage, no divine ...
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... one's ambitions either by the first or by the second, but not by both. Many Shakespearean characters will indeed attempt to use both.The crisis oflegitimacy is the crisis of the double bind. At the end of the Wars of the Roses cycle ...
... one's ambitions either by the first or by the second, but not by both. Many Shakespearean characters will indeed attempt to use both.The crisis oflegitimacy is the crisis of the double bind. At the end of the Wars of the Roses cycle ...
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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