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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... wants to find out what a person would do with such a moment of sudden and deep insight. Edmund becomes a villain; Shylock remains the same.But Lear and Richard II become new men: they win the prize of a present time that has never been ...
... wants to find out what a person would do with such a moment of sudden and deep insight. Edmund becomes a villain; Shylock remains the same.But Lear and Richard II become new men: they win the prize of a present time that has never been ...
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... as it appears in the ideas of natural right, or with the concept of natural that identifies nature with tradition? I think that Shakespeare is first and foremost curious, that he wants to get to the What Is Nature? What Is Natural? 23.
... as it appears in the ideas of natural right, or with the concept of natural that identifies nature with tradition? I think that Shakespeare is first and foremost curious, that he wants to get to the What Is Nature? What Is Natural? 23.
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Shakespeare as Philosopher of History Agnes Heller. and foremost curious, that he wants to get to the bottom of things, never presenting an argument without the man or woman who defends it with his or her life. Still, the fact that the ...
Shakespeare as Philosopher of History Agnes Heller. and foremost curious, that he wants to get to the bottom of things, never presenting an argument without the man or woman who defends it with his or her life. Still, the fact that the ...
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... wants the spectators to accept his interpretation, which is, this time, very strong. Shakespeare, however, limits even here only the inter- pretability of acts, not of motivations and of character.As far as motivations and character are ...
... wants the spectators to accept his interpretation, which is, this time, very strong. Shakespeare, however, limits even here only the inter- pretability of acts, not of motivations and of character.As far as motivations and character are ...
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... wants to have the “truth” without interpretation; he wants absolute verification. His intellectual absolutism is as absurd as Othello's foolishness.We, as spectators, know this only too well.Without having been taken into the confidence ...
... wants to have the “truth” without interpretation; he wants absolute verification. His intellectual absolutism is as absurd as Othello's foolishness.We, as spectators, know this only too well.Without having been taken into the confidence ...
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
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About the Author
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