The Time Is Out of Joint: Shakespeare as Philosopher of HistoryRowman & Littlefield Publishers, 23 հլս, 2002 թ. - 384 էջ 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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... :The History Plays 9 Richard II 1, 2, and 3 HenryVI The Tragedy of King Richard III 15 33 57 75 5 89 99 117 143 163 191 253 12 13 14 Part III:Three Roman Plays Coriolanus Julius Caesar vii The Time Is Out of Joint : Contents.
... :The History Plays 9 Richard II 1, 2, and 3 HenryVI The Tragedy of King Richard III 15 33 57 75 5 89 99 117 143 163 191 253 12 13 14 Part III:Three Roman Plays Coriolanus Julius Caesar vii The Time Is Out of Joint : Contents.
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Shakespeare as Philosopher of History Agnes Heller. 12 13 14 Part III:Three Roman Plays Coriolanus Julius Caesar Antony and Cleopatra Postscript: Historical Truth and Poetic Truth About the Author 281 311 337 367 375 Introduction the ...
Shakespeare as Philosopher of History Agnes Heller. 12 13 14 Part III:Three Roman Plays Coriolanus Julius Caesar Antony and Cleopatra Postscript: Historical Truth and Poetic Truth About the Author 281 311 337 367 375 Introduction the ...
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... Roman plays).Time is heimarmene for one actor, whereas it is sors bona or pronoia (providence) for another. Although time is not set right in the sense of being returned to its former place,“new men” usher in new times (as does Octavius ...
... Roman plays).Time is heimarmene for one actor, whereas it is sors bona or pronoia (providence) for another. Although time is not set right in the sense of being returned to its former place,“new men” usher in new times (as does Octavius ...
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... Roman plays, politics means something different for the patricians and for the plebeians, for the triumvirs and for the tyrannicides.Yet, in com- parison to the perception of politics of English kings, dukes, and the citi- zens of ...
... Roman plays, politics means something different for the patricians and for the plebeians, for the triumvirs and for the tyrannicides.Yet, in com- parison to the perception of politics of English kings, dukes, and the citi- zens of ...
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... Roman patricians are Roman patricians, his English dukes are English dukes, his Roman plebeians are Roman plebeians, and his English rabble is English rabble. Moreover, they could have lived only at the very concrete historical moment ...
... Roman patricians are Roman patricians, his English dukes are English dukes, his Roman plebeians are Roman plebeians, and his English rabble is English rabble. Moreover, they could have lived only at the very concrete historical moment ...
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Part II The History Plays
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About the Author
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