The Time Is Out of Joint: Shakespeare as Philosopher of HistoryRowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002年7月23日 - 384 頁 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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... Shake- speare's political actors (with Richard II, for example, who identifies the reason for his fall with missing the broken tune). Machiavelli asks whether worldly events are governed by fortune or by God—that is, by necessity or ...
... Shake- speare's political actors (with Richard II, for example, who identifies the reason for his fall with missing the broken tune). Machiavelli asks whether worldly events are governed by fortune or by God—that is, by necessity or ...
第 6 頁
... Shake- spearean character will act or not. Moreover, this choice has even less effect on the direction of the action. Different characters' similar convictions about fate and freedom can result in entirely different kinds and directions ...
... Shake- spearean character will act or not. Moreover, this choice has even less effect on the direction of the action. Different characters' similar convictions about fate and freedom can result in entirely different kinds and directions ...
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... Shake- spearean heroes are given the gift of soliloquy, the possibility or the need to speak with themselves, to think in solitude yet also to take the spectators into their confidence. Soliloquy is in general the manifestation of the ...
... Shake- spearean heroes are given the gift of soliloquy, the possibility or the need to speak with themselves, to think in solitude yet also to take the spectators into their confidence. Soliloquy is in general the manifestation of the ...
第 11 頁
... Shake- spearean political dramas. In Part II I choose Richard II, Henry VI (1, 2, 3), and Richard III from the English history plays; and, in Part III, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, and Antony and Cleopatra—all three Roman tragedies. I pro ...
... Shake- spearean political dramas. In Part II I choose Richard II, Henry VI (1, 2, 3), and Richard III from the English history plays; and, in Part III, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, and Antony and Cleopatra—all three Roman tragedies. I pro ...
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... Shake- spearean theater.This sounds perhaps a bit odd. Shakespeare's tragedies are, after all, telling us stories of retribution.They show us crimes that are met by punishment; they portray sinners who end their miserable lives as vic ...
... Shake- spearean theater.This sounds perhaps a bit odd. Shakespeare's tragedies are, after all, telling us stories of retribution.They show us crimes that are met by punishment; they portray sinners who end their miserable lives as vic ...
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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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