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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... true, or at least partly true.) “Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had lived a blessed time, for from this instant / There's nothing serious in mortality.All is but toys. Renown and grace is dead. / The wine of life is drawn ...
... true, or at least partly true.) “Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had lived a blessed time, for from this instant / There's nothing serious in mortality.All is but toys. Renown and grace is dead. / The wine of life is drawn ...
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... true; however, the opposite is also true. One meets real Romans who are concretely Romans and entirely different from all of our contemporaries.Yet, if we go into the pub on our street corner, we will meet exactly the same persons ...
... true; however, the opposite is also true. One meets real Romans who are concretely Romans and entirely different from all of our contemporaries.Yet, if we go into the pub on our street corner, we will meet exactly the same persons ...
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... True, Ulysses (in Troilus and Cressida 1.3) refers to the cosmic hierarchy. But he does this only to sup- port his commitment to social hierarchy, to the order of subordination/ superordination that must be obeyed: tradition is here ...
... True, Ulysses (in Troilus and Cressida 1.3) refers to the cosmic hierarchy. But he does this only to sup- port his commitment to social hierarchy, to the order of subordination/ superordination that must be obeyed: tradition is here ...
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... true that almost all the murders will be avenged either directly or indirectly, the tyrants will meet their violent death sooner or later, and the curses will take effect.The evil individuals face retribution; at least, this is what the ...
... true that almost all the murders will be avenged either directly or indirectly, the tyrants will meet their violent death sooner or later, and the curses will take effect.The evil individuals face retribution; at least, this is what the ...
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... true about history for the sake of rhetor- ical effect. Furthermore, the predictions and prophecies in Shakespeare's history plays serve a purpose beyond the satisfaction of the spectators' desire to be confirmed in their expectations ...
... true about history for the sake of rhetor- ical effect. Furthermore, the predictions and prophecies in Shakespeare's history plays serve a purpose beyond the satisfaction of the spectators' desire to be confirmed in their expectations ...
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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