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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... sense of being returned to its former place,“new men” usher in new times (as does Octavius Caesar in 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 ...
... sense of being returned to its former place,“new men” usher in new times (as does Octavius Caesar in 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 ...
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... sense, all philosophical man- ifestations are contextual. The character “philosopher” also appears in Timon ofAthens, where Ape- mantus remains, similar to the Stoics, always true to himself.Yet, he is an altogether different type of ...
... sense, all philosophical man- ifestations are contextual. The character “philosopher” also appears in Timon ofAthens, where Ape- mantus remains, similar to the Stoics, always true to himself.Yet, he is an altogether different type of ...
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... sense.They are far closer to our mod- ern reading of Machiavelli's works than to their reading in his own time. As is well known, Machiavelli distinguishes between well-exploited and badly exploited cruelties. In the seventh chapter of ...
... sense.They are far closer to our mod- ern reading of Machiavelli's works than to their reading in his own time. As is well known, Machiavelli distinguishes between well-exploited and badly exploited cruelties. In the seventh chapter of ...
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... sense of dan- ger, from good and bad judgment of character as are compassion, forgive- ness, sense of loyalty, and love. In Shakespeare this indistinguishability is not merely articulated and described; rather, this creed is embodied in ...
... sense of dan- ger, from good and bad judgment of character as are compassion, forgive- ness, sense of loyalty, and love. In Shakespeare this indistinguishability is not merely articulated and described; rather, this creed is embodied in ...
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... sense ofhistory—a sense that characterizes him alone, none before him, and none after him. His Roman patricians are Roman patricians, his English dukes are English dukes, his Roman plebeians are Roman plebeians, and his English rabble ...
... sense ofhistory—a sense that characterizes him alone, none before him, and none after him. His Roman patricians are Roman patricians, his English dukes are English dukes, his Roman plebeians are Roman plebeians, and his English rabble ...
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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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