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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... Queen Elizabeth and the theatergoers ofLondon recognized themselves in Richard II, so the- atergoers in the 1940s identified Richard III with Hitler and, a decade later, with Stalin. Hence the felt horror as well as the expectation of ...
... Queen Elizabeth and the theatergoers ofLondon recognized themselves in Richard II, so the- atergoers in the 1940s identified Richard III with Hitler and, a decade later, with Stalin. Hence the felt horror as well as the expectation of ...
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... queen, revenge, and extreme humil- iation. I agree with Jan Kott, who writes in Shakespeare, Our Contemporary, that A Midsummer Night's Dream is a story of extreme terror.All the same, it is surrounded by an aura of lightness. For the ...
... queen, revenge, and extreme humil- iation. I agree with Jan Kott, who writes in Shakespeare, Our Contemporary, that A Midsummer Night's Dream is a story of extreme terror.All the same, it is surrounded by an aura of lightness. For the ...
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... sole thing one learns from history is that nothing was ever learned from it. Although he was a skeptic, Shakespeare believed that by presenting stories about the past he could warn the queen so that What Is Nature? What Is Natural? 17.
... sole thing one learns from history is that nothing was ever learned from it. Although he was a skeptic, Shakespeare believed that by presenting stories about the past he could warn the queen so that What Is Nature? What Is Natural? 17.
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Shakespeare as Philosopher of History Agnes Heller. about the past he could warn the queen so that she could avoid repeating her predecessors' mistakes. Even the Roman plays form a sequence, although this is less obvious than with the ...
Shakespeare as Philosopher of History Agnes Heller. about the past he could warn the queen so that she could avoid repeating her predecessors' mistakes. Even the Roman plays form a sequence, although this is less obvious than with the ...
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... Queen Margaret, and in another context with Antony.There are as many entirely different kinds of entanglements and entirely different ways to cope with them as there are characters. Some other Shakespearean heroes and heroines, however ...
... Queen Margaret, and in another context with Antony.There are as many entirely different kinds of entanglements and entirely different ways to cope with them as there are characters. Some other Shakespearean heroes and heroines, however ...
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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