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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... never have done you / Than now to bid you hold” (King Lear 3.7.70–72). For this greatest service he pays with his life. Strong desires and passions less frequently motivate crimes or evils based on, or resulting from, the traditional ...
... never have done you / Than now to bid you hold” (King Lear 3.7.70–72). For this greatest service he pays with his life. Strong desires and passions less frequently motivate crimes or evils based on, or resulting from, the traditional ...
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... never clear, nor are the reasons for becoming victimized. The role of accident, chance, or contingency becomes inflated. Contingent acts frequently begin a chain of events, and in this sense the events have no causes. However, the ...
... never clear, nor are the reasons for becoming victimized. The role of accident, chance, or contingency becomes inflated. Contingent acts frequently begin a chain of events, and in this sense the events have no causes. However, the ...
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... never find a satisfactory answer to the simple questions about why a certain man or woman becomes a murderer and another the victim.The veil is never entirely lifted.We all know that Shakespeare's dra- mas are inexhaustible, for no ...
... never find a satisfactory answer to the simple questions about why a certain man or woman becomes a murderer and another the victim.The veil is never entirely lifted.We all know that Shakespeare's dra- mas are inexhaustible, for no ...
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... never decided in the drama.We will never get to know the truth about Gloucester's death. Moreover, in the first scene of act 4, the scene from the beginning of the play almost repeats itself, this time before King Henry IV and in an ...
... never decided in the drama.We will never get to know the truth about Gloucester's death. Moreover, in the first scene of act 4, the scene from the beginning of the play almost repeats itself, this time before King Henry IV and in an ...
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... never speak directly to their subjects thus:“Look, I am just like you!” Shylock could address Venetian Christians who were common- ers just like him with such words, but kings cannot do this. Royalty is not just a garment that a king ...
... never speak directly to their subjects thus:“Look, I am just like you!” Shylock could address Venetian Christians who were common- ers just like him with such words, but kings cannot do this. Royalty is not just a garment that a king ...
Inhalt
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Part II The History Plays
| 161 |
Part III Three Roman Plays
| 279 |
Postscript Historical Truth and Poetic Truth
| 367 |
About the Author
| 375 |
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