The Time Is Out of Joint: Shakespeare as Philosopher of HistoryRowman & Littlefield Publishers, 23 Jul 2002 - 384 halaman 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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... Henry Hotspur, the typical man of the battlefield: he is brave but narrow-minded, traditional yet mildly disloyal. His forte is his physical courage. He never reflects; he is the man ofthe sword.But Shakespeare sud- denly offers him a ...
... Henry Hotspur, the typical man of the battlefield: he is brave but narrow-minded, traditional yet mildly disloyal. His forte is his physical courage. He never reflects; he is the man ofthe sword.But Shakespeare sud- denly offers him a ...
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... Henry IV has stopped committing further cruelties after the murder of Richard, and according to the dramas of King Henry (IV, 1 and 2), he became a fairly good king. Shakespeare's worst political villains are the ones who use cruelty ...
... Henry IV has stopped committing further cruelties after the murder of Richard, and according to the dramas of King Henry (IV, 1 and 2), he became a fairly good king. Shakespeare's worst political villains are the ones who use cruelty ...
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... Henry VI and in Richard III. In another type of monologue, the character presents him- selfwith different options for action and ruminates about his choices.This inner dialogue is similar to the Aristotelian boulesis: there are two ...
... Henry VI and in Richard III. In another type of monologue, the character presents him- selfwith different options for action and ruminates about his choices.This inner dialogue is similar to the Aristotelian boulesis: there are two ...
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... 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- ceed with my discussion following the actual historical sequence ...
... 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- ceed with my discussion following the actual historical sequence ...
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... Henry VII. The latest history play, Henry VIII, could not possibly be a good one.The dou- ble bind, the insoluble tension between two legitimacy claims, the clash between the premodern and the modern world, is the tragic situation that ...
... Henry VII. The latest history play, Henry VIII, could not possibly be a good one.The dou- ble bind, the insoluble tension between two legitimacy claims, the clash between the premodern and the modern world, is the tragic situation that ...
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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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