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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... soul between Hal, the natural man, and the English “Harry, Harry's son”; his second identity will set the limits of ... soul, who never ceased to describe men as sive iustus et peccator, who taught that the more one inspects one's own ...
... soul between Hal, the natural man, and the English “Harry, Harry's son”; his second identity will set the limits of ... soul, who never ceased to describe men as sive iustus et peccator, who taught that the more one inspects one's own ...
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... soul searching, his passion to know himself and to know himself truly. Hamlet is always preoccupied with the question of “who am I?”This question implies, however, two questions. I am Hamlet, the son of Hamlet.What duties and ...
... soul searching, his passion to know himself and to know himself truly. Hamlet is always preoccupied with the question of “who am I?”This question implies, however, two questions. I am Hamlet, the son of Hamlet.What duties and ...
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... soul—a chaos that everyone who ever cast a sincere glance at himself recognizes in himself. Self-torture or self-debasement is a sign of self-alienation. One of Ham- let's selves is alienated from the other, and all his lonely attempts ...
... soul—a chaos that everyone who ever cast a sincere glance at himself recognizes in himself. Self-torture or self-debasement is a sign of self-alienation. One of Ham- let's selves is alienated from the other, and all his lonely attempts ...
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... soul with all his might. He does not allow others to glimpse into his internal chambers. Pretending madness is also self-defense in the literal meaning of the word. He defends his self from intrusion rather than his body from injury or ...
... soul with all his might. He does not allow others to glimpse into his internal chambers. Pretending madness is also self-defense in the literal meaning of the word. He defends his self from intrusion rather than his body from injury or ...
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... Soul-searching introspection turns into exhibitionism in the Ophelia scene. Self-torture and the torture of the other can hardly be distinguished here. It is as if the torture of the other reinforces Hamlet's self-torture and vice versa ...
... Soul-searching introspection turns into exhibitionism in the Ophelia scene. Self-torture and the torture of the other can hardly be distinguished here. It is as if the torture of the other reinforces Hamlet's self-torture and vice versa ...
Inhalt
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Part II The History Plays
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Part III Three Roman Plays
| 279 |
Postscript Historical Truth and Poetic Truth
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About the Author
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