The Time is Out of Joint: Shakespeare as Philosopher of HistoryRowman & Littlefield, 2002 - 375 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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... Henry among those who follow the laws of nature rather than those of tradition . Yet this would not really do justice to Henry's way of thinking . For Henry VI - like radi- cally good persons in general - is neither old - fashioned nor ...
... Henry among those who follow the laws of nature rather than those of tradition . Yet this would not really do justice to Henry's way of thinking . For Henry VI - like radi- cally good persons in general - is neither old - fashioned nor ...
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... Henry IV and Henry V ) . A few other kings ( Richard II , for one ) ruminate about time . Henry VI brings them together in one chain of thought . He is the sole king among them all who — again , in Shakespeare's portrayal — really means ...
... Henry IV and Henry V ) . A few other kings ( Richard II , for one ) ruminate about time . Henry VI brings them together in one chain of thought . He is the sole king among them all who — again , in Shakespeare's portrayal — really means ...
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... Henry VI . I would return to the main line of the plot . Henry VI is again king of England , but by now his decision is firm : he is unfit to rule , he does not want to govern , he resigns his government to Warwick . " For thou art for ...
... Henry VI . I would return to the main line of the plot . Henry VI is again king of England , but by now his decision is firm : he is unfit to rule , he does not want to govern , he resigns his government to Warwick . " For thou art for ...
Inhalt
Introduction | 1 |
What Is Nature? What Is Natural? | 15 |
Who Am I? Dressing Up Stripping Naked | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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