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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... father and the father of his father . The usurpers raise a claim to the throne by the right of nature , the law of nature , because the best ( the fittest ) has the right to rule . Still , the claim of tradition is power- ful , so the ...
... father and the father of his father . The usurpers raise a claim to the throne by the right of nature , the law of nature , because the best ( the fittest ) has the right to rule . Still , the claim of tradition is power- ful , so the ...
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... father , arrive before the king first , and ask his pardon . Taken by itself the scene is terrifying . A father denouncing his son , a father killing his son this will be one of the saddest melodies in the funeral march of the Wars of ...
... father , arrive before the king first , and ask his pardon . Taken by itself the scene is terrifying . A father denouncing his son , a father killing his son this will be one of the saddest melodies in the funeral march of the Wars of ...
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... father tries to save his son's life , the son his father's life , but to no avail . They fly togeth- er as two stars . Shakespeare plays around with " flying . " John Talbot : " Sure- ly , by all the glory you have won , / And if I fly ...
... father tries to save his son's life , the son his father's life , but to no avail . They fly togeth- er as two stars . Shakespeare plays around with " flying . " John Talbot : " Sure- ly , by all the glory you have won , / And if I fly ...
Inhalt
Introduction | 1 |
What Is Nature? What Is Natural? | 15 |
Who Am I? Dressing Up Stripping Naked | 33 |
Urheberrecht | |
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The Time is Out of Joint: Shakespeare as Philosopher of History Agnes Heller Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2002 |
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