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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... Lear in the tragedy King Lear ? What makes the " thatness " of this man ? Is he a king ( “ every inch a king " ) , or is he a man ? What man is he ? In the " human substance " ( ousia ) one pre- supposes several potentialities ( dynamei ) ...
... Lear in the tragedy King Lear ? What makes the " thatness " of this man ? Is he a king ( “ every inch a king " ) , or is he a man ? What man is he ? In the " human substance " ( ousia ) one pre- supposes several potentialities ( dynamei ) ...
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... Lear . Lear begs for love from his youngest daughter , but he also insists that she resign her deep com- mitment to the right of nature . Lear commands love , but love — in the sense of Cordelia's concept of nature , which is repeated ...
... Lear . Lear begs for love from his youngest daughter , but he also insists that she resign her deep com- mitment to the right of nature . Lear commands love , but love — in the sense of Cordelia's concept of nature , which is repeated ...
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... Lear first raises a question about his identity : " Doth any here know me ? Why this is not Lear . / Doth Lear walk thus , speak thus ? Where are his eyes ? / Who is it that can tell me who I am ? " The Fool answers : " Lear's shadow " ( ...
... Lear first raises a question about his identity : " Doth any here know me ? Why this is not Lear . / Doth Lear walk thus , speak thus ? Where are his eyes ? / Who is it that can tell me who I am ? " The Fool answers : " Lear's shadow " ( ...
Inhalt
Introduction | 1 |
What Is Nature? What Is Natural? | 15 |
Who Am I? Dressing Up Stripping Naked | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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