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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... story of extreme terror.All the same, it is surrounded by an aura of lightness. For the bad dream is just a dream, and if one wakes up to a life of happiness, the dream is “so musical a dis- cord, such sweet a thunder” (A Midsummer ...
... story of extreme terror.All the same, it is surrounded by an aura of lightness. For the bad dream is just a dream, and if one wakes up to a life of happiness, the dream is “so musical a dis- cord, such sweet a thunder” (A Midsummer ...
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... stories are sequels that cover crucial historical periods chosen by Shakespeare with a historopoetic purpose.The ... story of Richard II where everything began. Some lessons can, however, be drawn. One can no longer conduct politics ...
... stories are sequels that cover crucial historical periods chosen by Shakespeare with a historopoetic purpose.The ... story of Richard II where everything began. Some lessons can, however, be drawn. One can no longer conduct politics ...
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... stories only in a subtle sense, just as a few centuries later Dostoyevsky's novels are. There are crimes and criminals ... story; this is history. Ifthe murder is premeditated, the spectator is generally informed about the project far ...
... stories only in a subtle sense, just as a few centuries later Dostoyevsky's novels are. There are crimes and criminals ... story; this is history. Ifthe murder is premeditated, the spectator is generally informed about the project far ...
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... story in Othello. If one sees a handkerchief, one sees this handker- chief.A handkerchief is a thing, a fact. It is here or there; it is in the hand of one or the other person.To notice the handkerchief and to take it into account is ...
... story in Othello. If one sees a handkerchief, one sees this handker- chief.A handkerchief is a thing, a fact. It is here or there; it is in the hand of one or the other person.To notice the handkerchief and to take it into account is ...
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... story ofHenryV, certainly not in historical or political terms.Yet the ideas and acts of kings cannot be discussed unless one also discusses them in these terms. We learned from the history of HenryV that the king does not simply ...
... story ofHenryV, certainly not in historical or political terms.Yet the ideas and acts of kings cannot be discussed unless one also discusses them in these terms. We learned from the history of HenryV that the king does not simply ...
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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