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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... kind of philoso- pher who is situated in an absolutely evil and mad world? According to the general perception, it is Hamlet who is the most “philosophical” ofall Shakespearean characters; but Hamlet's philosophical reflections are ...
... kind of philoso- pher who is situated in an absolutely evil and mad world? According to the general perception, it is Hamlet who is the most “philosophical” ofall Shakespearean characters; but Hamlet's philosophical reflections are ...
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... kind of soliloquy where two heterogeneous persons are battling within the soul of a man. One of them might be the impartial judge, the con- science, as well as a provider of alien truth or opinion (e.g., Hamlet and Richard II).There is ...
... kind of soliloquy where two heterogeneous persons are battling within the soul of a man. One of them might be the impartial judge, the con- science, as well as a provider of alien truth or opinion (e.g., Hamlet and Richard II).There is ...
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... kind of divine intervention.The sequence of events as well as historical memory evaluates, distinguishes,judges, and vindicates in a nonmoral sense. There are no signs in Shakespeare ofa deus absconditus working behind the scenes.While ...
... kind of divine intervention.The sequence of events as well as historical memory evaluates, distinguishes,judges, and vindicates in a nonmoral sense. There are no signs in Shakespeare ofa deus absconditus working behind the scenes.While ...
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... kind, at least in Shakespeare; there can be sacred folly, but not sacred foolishness. Whether the Shakespearean characters are tragic or comic, the Aris- totelian kind of substance identity is constituted in two different forms. First ...
... kind, at least in Shakespeare; there can be sacred folly, but not sacred foolishness. Whether the Shakespearean characters are tragic or comic, the Aris- totelian kind of substance identity is constituted in two different forms. First ...
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... kind of man, / So surfeit-swelled, so old, and so pro- fane; / But being awake, I do despise my dream” (2 Henry IV 5.5.49–51). “Awakening” is a religious metaphor for becoming another man. In becoming another man, Harry despises ...
... kind of man, / So surfeit-swelled, so old, and so pro- fane; / But being awake, I do despise my dream” (2 Henry IV 5.5.49–51). “Awakening” is a religious metaphor for becoming another man. In becoming another man, Harry despises ...
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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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