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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... interest , does not hurt the economic interests of the merchants of Venice but rather furthers them . The merchants are adven- turers whose ships take risks at sea , who can win immense fortunes if they are successful . Those ships are ...
... interest , does not hurt the economic interests of the merchants of Venice but rather furthers them . The merchants are adven- turers whose ships take risks at sea , who can win immense fortunes if they are successful . Those ships are ...
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... Interests - the contrast between passion and interest became topical . Thus , the relation between passions and reason may develop in at least four different directions and is duplicated in all of them . In his portrayal , but also in ...
... Interests - the contrast between passion and interest became topical . Thus , the relation between passions and reason may develop in at least four different directions and is duplicated in all of them . In his portrayal , but also in ...
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... interests — not just the interests of a few mighty and ambitious men , but also group interests and the interests of different political ideas . This explains why the multitude plays a different role in the republican plays than in the ...
... interests — not just the interests of a few mighty and ambitious men , but also group interests and the interests of different political ideas . This explains why the multitude plays a different role in the republican plays than in the ...
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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