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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... women merely players. T. he time is out ofjoint,” 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 ...
... women merely players. T. he time is out ofjoint,” 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 ...
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... women of great emotional density) are poetic, rhetorical, and flowery (like Antony). Some speak in a playful and refined manner (like Beatrice and Benedick), while some (skeptical and contemplative heroes) develop a reflective style.I ...
... women of great emotional density) are poetic, rhetorical, and flowery (like Antony). Some speak in a playful and refined manner (like Beatrice and Benedick), while some (skeptical and contemplative heroes) develop a reflective style.I ...
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... but that she allows the other half or there- abouts to be governed by us.” But what is the greatest gift of fortune? “He is happy whose modes of procedure accord with the needs of the times . . . for fortune is a woman and it Introduction ...
... but that she allows the other half or there- abouts to be governed by us.” But what is the greatest gift of fortune? “He is happy whose modes of procedure accord with the needs of the times . . . for fortune is a woman and it Introduction ...
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... women, and children. Goneril and Regan perish, but so do Cordelia and the young princes, who have done no harm. The good die along with the wicked. In a sense, Shakespeare's dramas force the attentive spectator to face the old paradox ...
... women, and children. Goneril and Regan perish, but so do Cordelia and the young princes, who have done no harm. The good die along with the wicked. In a sense, Shakespeare's dramas force the attentive spectator to face the old paradox ...
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... women prophesy the downfall oftheir enemies and the victory oftheir own cause, simply to vent their rage or indignation, to strengthen their resistance, to amass courage in the face of death. In extreme situations a man can raise ...
... women prophesy the downfall oftheir enemies and the victory oftheir own cause, simply to vent their rage or indignation, to strengthen their resistance, to amass courage in the face of death. In extreme situations a man can raise ...
Inhalt
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Part II The History Plays
| 161 |
Part III Three Roman Plays
| 279 |
Postscript Historical Truth and Poetic Truth
| 367 |
About the Author
| 375 |
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