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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... Guilt, Good, and Evil Part II:The History Plays 9 Richard II 1, 2, and 3 HenryVI The Tragedy of King Richard III 15 33 57 75 5 89 99 117 143 163 191 253 12 13 14 Part III:Three Roman Plays Coriolanus Julius Caesar vii The Time Is Out of ...
... Guilt, Good, and Evil Part II:The History Plays 9 Richard II 1, 2, and 3 HenryVI The Tragedy of King Richard III 15 33 57 75 5 89 99 117 143 163 191 253 12 13 14 Part III:Three Roman Plays Coriolanus Julius Caesar vii The Time Is Out of ...
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... guilty. I do think, however, that the acts done by Shakespeare's heroes tell us more about the fictions created or believed in by the char- acters themselves than about Shakespeare's own vision. It is true that almost all the murders ...
... guilty. I do think, however, that the acts done by Shakespeare's heroes tell us more about the fictions created or believed in by the char- acters themselves than about Shakespeare's own vision. It is true that almost all the murders ...
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... guilty), Shakespeare writes the dramas of an almost unpredictable history. But if history is unpredictable, why did I compare Shakespeare to Machiavelli? Machiavelli has established, after all, some regularities in polit- ical history ...
... guilty), Shakespeare writes the dramas of an almost unpredictable history. But if history is unpredictable, why did I compare Shakespeare to Machiavelli? Machiavelli has established, after all, some regularities in polit- ical history ...
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... guilty and innocent.There is also retaliation, revenge, punishment, and sometimes even justice.Yet Shakespeare's tragedies and history plays also differ even from subtle detective stories, because, unlike detective stories, here ...
... guilty and innocent.There is also retaliation, revenge, punishment, and sometimes even justice.Yet Shakespeare's tragedies and history plays also differ even from subtle detective stories, because, unlike detective stories, here ...
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... guilty of old Hamlet's murder. The truth of fact hinges on a silent confession that neither Hamlet nor we could possibly hear. Shakespeare presents the past in the pre- sent, and thought in speech.This foul king in foul prayer is just ...
... guilty of old Hamlet's murder. The truth of fact hinges on a silent confession that neither Hamlet nor we could possibly hear. Shakespeare presents the past in the pre- sent, and thought in speech.This foul king in foul prayer is just ...
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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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