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Author: Paul A. Kottman
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 0804759197
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume assembles for the first time writings from the past two hundred years by philosophers engaging the dramatic work of William Shakespeare.
Author: Margherita Pascucci
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-12-24
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1137324589
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a close philosophical reading of King Lear and Timon of Athens which provides insights into the groundbreaking ontological discourse on poverty and money. Analysis of the discourse of poverty and the critique of money helps to read Shakespeare philosophically and opens new reflections on central questions of our own time.
Author: Colin McGinn
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2006-11-28
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 0060856157
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShakespeare's plays are usually studied by literary scholars and historians and the books about him from those perspectives are legion. It is most unusual for a trained philosopher to give us his insight, as Colin McGinn does here, into six of Shakespeare's greatest plays—A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, and The Tempest. In his brilliant commentary, McGinn explores Shakespeare's philosophy of life and illustrates how he was influenced, for example, by the essays of Montaigne that were translated into English while Shakespeare was writing. In addition to chapters on the great plays, there are also essays on Shakespeare and gender and his plays from the aspects of psychology, ethics, and tragedy. As McGinn says about Shakespeare, "There is not a sentimental bone in his body. He has the curiosity of a scientist, the judgement of a philosopher, and the soul of a poet." McGinn relates the ideas in the plays to the later philosophers such as David Hume and the modern commentaries of critics such as Harold Bloom. The book is an exhilarating reading experience, especially at a time when a new audience has opened up for the greatest writer in English.
Author: Margherita Pascucci
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-12-24
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1137324589
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a close philosophical reading of King Lear and Timon of Athens which provides insights into the groundbreaking ontological discourse on poverty and money. Analysis of the discourse of poverty and the critique of money helps to read Shakespeare philosophically and opens new reflections on central questions of our own time.
Author: Tzachi Zamir
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2012-06-24
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 0691155453
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHamlet tells Horatio that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in his philosophy. In Double Vision, philosopher and literary critic Tzachi Zamir argues that there are more things in Hamlet than are dreamt of--or at least conceded--by most philosophers. Making an original and persuasive case for the philosophical value of literature, Zamir suggests that certain important philosophical insights can be gained only through literature. But such insights cannot be reached if literature is deployed merely as an aesthetic sugaring of a conceptual pill. Philosophical knowledge is not opposed to, but is consonant with, the literariness of literature. By focusing on the experience of reading literature as literature and not philosophy, Zamir sets a theoretical framework for a philosophically oriented literary criticism that will appeal both to philosophers and literary critics. Double Vision is concerned with the philosophical understanding induced by the aesthetic experience of literature. Literary works can function as credible philosophical arguments--not ones in which claims are conclusively demonstrated, but in which claims are made plausible. Such claims, Zamir argues, are embedded within an experiential structure that is itself a crucial dimension of knowing. Developing an account of literature's relation to knowledge, morality, and rhetoric, and advancing philosophical-literary readings of Richard III, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, and King Lear, Zamir shows how his approach can open up familiar texts in surprising and rewarding ways.
Author: Agnes Heller
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780742512511
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Time Is Out of Joint presents an examination of Shakespeare's distinctly modern confrontation with time and temporality, the difference between the truth of the fact, that of theory, and that of interpretation and revelatory truth, and finds that Shakespeare anticipated post-metaphysical philosophy and its central concerns at a time when modern metaphysics had not yet reached it speak. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Author: Chiara Alfano
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2020-02-14
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1474409881
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book brings to light Derrida's rich and thought-provoking discussions of Shakespearean drama.
Author: Alex Schulman
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2014-07-21
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 0748682422
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat were Shakespeare's politics? As this study demonstrates, contained in Shakespeare's plays is an astonishingly powerful reckoning with the tradition of Western political thought, one whose depth and scope places Shakespeare alongside Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes and others. This book is the first attempt by a political theorist to read Shakespeare within the trajectory of political thought as one of the authors of modernity. From Shakespeare's interpretation of ancient and medieval politics to his wrestling with issues of legitimacy, religious toleration, family conflict, and economic change, Alex Schulman shows how Shakespeare produces a fascinating map of modern politics at its crisis-filled birth. As a result, there are brand new readings of Troilus and Cressida, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, King Lear, Richard II and Henry IV, parts I and II , The Merchant of Venice and Measure for Measure.
Author: Richard Simpson
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2018-01-29
Total Pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9780484557191
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn Introduction to the Philosophy of Shakespeare's Sonnets by Richard Simpson is a path breaking piece of work deconstructing the nuances of Shakespeare's lyrical poems. The underlying premise that Richard Simpson works with is the that Shakespeare is describing a part of himself in his lyrical poems, as compared to his dramatic poetry where he is only building characters and breathing life into them. In this endeavour, the author of An Introduction to the Philosophy of Shakespeare's Sonnets brings out the true feelings, dispositions and judgements of Shakespeare as a poet. Simpson keenly traces the Renaissance philosophy of love propounded by Plato and contextualizes the same in the light of Shakespeare's sonnets. The underpinnings of An Introduction to the Philosophy of Shakespeare's Sonnets rest upon Simpson's explanation of scales of love and the various stages which the two scales of imaginative and ideal love go through in the light of Shakespeare's sonnets. The book is well laid out with an intellectually stimulating introduction that sets the tone for the future sections. Drawing parallels with philosophical thought of well-known scholars, Simpson is able to bring out a side of Shakespeare hitherto ignored by many. The seven chapters of An Introduction to the Philosophy of Shakespeare's Sonnets serve up a literary treat for the reader, be it for casual interest or for in depth research as one of the primary texts on Shakespeare's sonnets. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
