The Time is Out of Joint: Shakespeare as Philosopher of HistoryRowman & Littlefield, 2002 - 375 pagina's 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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... 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 London , the ...
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... mean absolutely different things to disclose oneself . It hap- pens that a character cannot disclose his plans because they are evil and must be concealed in order to be carried out successfully , as in the grand monologues of Richard ...
... mean absolutely different things to disclose oneself . It hap- pens that a character cannot disclose his plans because they are evil and must be concealed in order to be carried out successfully , as in the grand monologues of Richard ...
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... means of characterization , but there are as many different characterizations as characters . I will discuss ... mean that the time is out of joint ? What are the manifestations of this disjointed time ? In the second and third parts , I ...
... means of characterization , but there are as many different characterizations as characters . I will discuss ... mean that the time is out of joint ? What are the manifestations of this disjointed time ? In the second and third parts , I ...
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Inhoudsopgave
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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