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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... killed just one single man “at the beginning.”Yet 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 ...
... killed just one single man “at the beginning.”Yet 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 ...
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... killing) of the Duke of Gloucester, uncle to the king. He also intimates, without spelling it out, that he holds the king responsible for instigating the foul act. Mortimer is accused of murder in the presence of the king. Mortimer ...
... killing) of the Duke of Gloucester, uncle to the king. He also intimates, without spelling it out, that he holds the king responsible for instigating the foul act. Mortimer is accused of murder in the presence of the king. Mortimer ...
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... killing the old fool, Polonius.Then he was also in a rage; he has not acted in cold blood. But he does not say he was sorry even afterwards. There is a feature in Hamlet that is common in both of his selves, a fea- ture that reinforces ...
... killing the old fool, Polonius.Then he was also in a rage; he has not acted in cold blood. But he does not say he was sorry even afterwards. There is a feature in Hamlet that is common in both of his selves, a fea- ture that reinforces ...
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... killed by Ophelia's lover.This in itself is a terri- ble trauma. But it is not impossible to cope with this if one tries to under- stand the reason behind what happened.What was in Hamlet's and Polo- nius's minds? What kind of man was ...
... killed by Ophelia's lover.This in itself is a terri- ble trauma. But it is not impossible to cope with this if one tries to under- stand the reason behind what happened.What was in Hamlet's and Polo- nius's minds? What kind of man was ...
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... (killed the enemy, conquered a foreign territory) was proper and right; there is not much to think about it in retrospect.They tell stories of their past fights; they boast of their courage or praise the courage of others, depending on ...
... (killed the enemy, conquered a foreign territory) was proper and right; there is not much to think about it in retrospect.They tell stories of their past fights; they boast of their courage or praise the courage of others, depending on ...
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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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