The Time is Out of Joint: Shakespeare as Philosopher of HistoryRowman & Littlefield, 2002 - 375 pages 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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... III : Three Roman Plays 12 Coriolanus 281 13 Julius Caesar 311 14 Antony and Cleopatra 337 Postscript : Historical Truth and Poetic Truth 367 About the Author 375 Introduction he time is out of joint , " says. viii Contents.
... III : Three Roman Plays 12 Coriolanus 281 13 Julius Caesar 311 14 Antony and Cleopatra 337 Postscript : Historical Truth and Poetic Truth 367 About the Author 375 Introduction he time is out of joint , " says. viii Contents.
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... Caesar in Antony and Cleopatra ) . Only in some comedies ( As You Like It , Much Ado about Noth- ing , 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 ...
... Caesar in Antony and Cleopatra ) . Only in some comedies ( As You Like It , Much Ado about Noth- ing , 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 ...
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... Caesar speak philosophically . " The philosophy of Shakespeare " is like " the language of Shakespeare . " Every Shakespearean character speaks his or her own lan- guage . Some of them ( like some soldiers or generals ) are witty and ...
... Caesar speak philosophically . " The philosophy of Shakespeare " is like " the language of Shakespeare . " Every Shakespearean character speaks his or her own lan- guage . Some of them ( like some soldiers or generals ) are witty and ...
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... Caesar ) . In this broader sense , all philosophical man- ifestations are contextual . The character " philosopher " also appears in Timon of Athens , where Ape- mantus remains , similar to the Stoics , always true to himself . Yet , he ...
... Caesar ) . In this broader sense , all philosophical man- ifestations are contextual . The character " philosopher " also appears in Timon of Athens , where Ape- mantus remains , similar to the Stoics , always true to himself . Yet , he ...
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... Caesar as he walks to the capitol uncon- cerned about the ides of March . In Hamlet's case , fate and providence are mutually exclusive . To be born to put time right is Hamlet's fate , his des- tiny . He is an actor who has to answer ...
... Caesar as he walks to the capitol uncon- cerned about the ides of March . In Hamlet's case , fate and providence are mutually exclusive . To be born to put time right is Hamlet's fate , his des- tiny . He is an actor who has to answer ...
Table des matières
What Is Nature? What Is Natural? | 13 |
Who Am I? Dressing Up Stripping Naked | 31 |
Acting Playing Pretending Disguising | 55 |
The Absolute Strangers | 73 |
Judgment of Human Character To Betray and to Be Betrayed | 87 |
Love Sex Subversion Political Drama Family Drama | 97 |
The Sphinx Called Time | 115 |
Virtues and Vices Guilt Good and Evil | 141 |
Richard II | 161 |
1 2 and 3 Henry VI | 189 |
The Tragedy of King Richard III | 251 |
THREE ROMAN PLAYS | 277 |
Antony and Cleopatra | 335 |
Historical Truth and Poetic Truth | 333 |
About the Author | 341 |
THE HISTORY PLAYS | 159 |
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