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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... says Hamlet.The time is out ofjoint in all They have their exits and their entrances,And one man in his time plays many parts.” Thus ruminates the melancholy Jaques in As You Like It (2.7.139–42).The actors—Shakespeare among them—enter ...
... says Hamlet.The time is out ofjoint in all They have their exits and their entrances,And one man in his time plays many parts.” Thus ruminates the melancholy Jaques in As You Like It (2.7.139–42).The actors—Shakespeare among them—enter ...
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... says:“It will have blood, they say. Blood will have blood” (Macbeth 3.4.121). Machiavelli discovered the multifaceted significance of time in politics. Time was politicized in ancient Greek thinking in the sense of kairos. The man of ...
... says:“It will have blood, they say. Blood will have blood” (Macbeth 3.4.121). Machiavelli discovered the multifaceted significance of time in politics. Time was politicized in ancient Greek thinking in the sense of kairos. The man of ...
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... says:“O good old man, how well in thee appears / The constant service ofthe antique world, /When service sweat for duty, not for meed!” (As You Like It 2.3.57–59).Adam is a good, loyal character. But he also has good luck: his master ...
... says:“O good old man, how well in thee appears / The constant service ofthe antique world, /When service sweat for duty, not for meed!” (As You Like It 2.3.57–59).Adam is a good, loyal character. But he also has good luck: his master ...
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... says some- thing else, something that seemingly has little to do with his earlier, indi- rect admission that he is just a man:“Every subject's duty is the King's, but every subject's soul is his own” (Henry V4.1.175–77).This HenryV ...
... says some- thing else, something that seemingly has little to do with his earlier, indi- rect admission that he is just a man:“Every subject's duty is the King's, but every subject's soul is his own” (Henry V4.1.175–77).This HenryV ...
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... says or whether we believe that it is “true,” but whether we believe that his monologue is authentic. Can a king like HenryV (the former Prince Hal, Falstaff's pal) feel like this? Does this king interpret himself and his feelings here ...
... says or whether we believe that it is “true,” but whether we believe that his monologue is authentic. Can a king like HenryV (the former Prince Hal, Falstaff's pal) feel like this? Does this king interpret himself and his feelings here ...
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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