The Time Is Out of Joint: Shakespeare as Philosopher of HistoryRowman & Littlefield Publishers, 23/07/2002 - 384 páginas 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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... Antony and Cleopatra Postscript: Historical Truth and Poetic Truth About the Author 281 311 337 367 375 Introduction the Shakespearean tragedies and history plays, and in many viii Contents.
... Antony and Cleopatra Postscript: Historical Truth and Poetic Truth About the Author 281 311 337 367 375 Introduction the Shakespearean tragedies and history plays, and in many viii Contents.
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... Antony and Cleopatra). Only in some comedies (As You Like It,Much Ado about Nothing, and A Midsummer Night's Dream) will time be set right to everyone's sat- isfaction—sometimes even for the villains (as in As You Like It). “All the ...
... Antony and Cleopatra). Only in some comedies (As You Like It,Much Ado about Nothing, and A Midsummer Night's Dream) will time be set right to everyone's sat- isfaction—sometimes even for the villains (as in As You Like It). “All the ...
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... Antony and Cleopatra—all three Roman tragedies. I pro- ceed with my discussion following the actual historical sequence of the times covered in the plays, rather than in the order in which the plays were written. Although Henry VI and ...
... Antony and Cleopatra—all three Roman tragedies. I pro- ceed with my discussion following the actual historical sequence of the times covered in the plays, rather than in the order in which the plays were written. Although Henry VI and ...
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... Antony and Cleopatra it becomes clear that the clever and cold politicking ofOctavius Caesar meets the approval of the already pacified plebes, who are by then more interest- ed in looting foreign countries than in republican freedom ...
... Antony and Cleopatra it becomes clear that the clever and cold politicking ofOctavius Caesar meets the approval of the already pacified plebes, who are by then more interest- ed in looting foreign countries than in republican freedom ...
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... Antony and Cleopatra Shakespeare adds a new dimension to the conflict: the irreconcilable clash between the East and the West.Yet in all these cases (as also in tragedies like Hamlet, Lear, and Macbeth) the tragedy unfolds around the ...
... Antony and Cleopatra Shakespeare adds a new dimension to the conflict: the irreconcilable clash between the East and the West.Yet in all these cases (as also in tragedies like Hamlet, Lear, and Macbeth) the tragedy unfolds around the ...
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Part II The History Plays
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Part III Three Roman Plays
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Postscript Historical Truth and Poetic Truth
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About the Author
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