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Shakespeare's Philosophy

Author : Colin McGinn
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061751650
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Philosophy written by Colin McGinn and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare’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 judgment 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 for students who are discovering the greatest writer in English.

Philosophers on Shakespeare

Author : Paul A. Kottman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804759197
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Philosophers on Shakespeare written by Paul A. Kottman and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume assembles for the first time writings from the past two hundred years by philosophers engaging the dramatic work of William Shakespeare.

Reading Shakespeare through Philosophy

Author : Peter Kishore Saval
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113462316X
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Reading Shakespeare through Philosophy written by Peter Kishore Saval and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Shakespeare through Philosophy advocates that the beauty of Shakespearean drama is inseparable from its philosophical power. Shakespeare’s plays make demands on us even beyond our linguistic attention and historical empathy: they require thinking, and the concepts of philosophy can provide us with tools to aid us in that thinking. This volume examines how philosophy can help us to re-imagine Shakespeare’s treatment of individuality, character, and destiny, particularly at certain moments in a play when a character’s relationship to space or time becomes an enigma to us. The author focuses on the dramatization of seemingly magical relationships between the individual and the cosmos, exploring and rethinking the meanings of 'individual', 'cosmos' and 'magic' through a conceptually acute reading of Shakespeare's plays. This book draws upon a variety of thinkers including Plato, Aristotle, Leibniz and Kant, in search of a revitalized philosophical criticism of Julius Caesar, Love’s Labor’s Lost, The Merchant of Venice, Timon of Athens, and Twelfth Night.

Philosophical Readings of Shakespeare

Author : Margherita Pascucci
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137324589
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Readings of Shakespeare written by Margherita Pascucci and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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.

The Time is Out of Joint

Author : Agnes Heller
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742512511
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book The Time is Out of Joint written by Agnes Heller and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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!

Shakespeare’s Political Wisdom

Author : T. Burns
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137314656
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare’s Political Wisdom written by T. Burns and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's Political Wisdom offers interpretations of five Shakespearean plays with a view to the enduring guidance those plays can provide to human, political life. The plays have been chosen for their relentless attention to the questions that were once and may sometime become, or be recognized as being, the heart and soul of politics.

Philosophical Pearls of the Shakespearean Deep

Author : Farhang Zabeeh
Publisher : Humanity Books
ISBN 13 : 9781616146528
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (465 download)

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Book Synopsis Philosophical Pearls of the Shakespearean Deep by : Farhang Zabeeh

Download or read book Philosophical Pearls of the Shakespearean Deep written by Farhang Zabeeh and published by Humanity Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers many fresh insights and the pleasure of discovering what has long been overlooked in Shakespeares works. Scholars have long debated the extent of Shakespeares education. Philosopher Farhang Zabeeh delves into this fascinating topic in this detailed study of the philosophical influences evident in Shakespeares plays and sonnets.

Derrida Reads Shakespeare

Author : Alfano Chiara Alfano
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 147440989X
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Derrida Reads Shakespeare written by Alfano Chiara Alfano and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores Jacques Derrida's distinctive approach to ShakespeareOffers the first comprehensive and accessible account and discussion of Derrida's engagement with ShakespeareChallenges the way we have traditionally come to think about the interdisciplinary relationship between literature and philosophy, as well as literary geniusContextualises Derrida's readings of Shakespeare within his wider philosophical project and discusses in how far they relate to - or are distinct from - his engagement with other dramatic or literary worksThis book brings to light Derrida's rich and thought-provoking discussions of Shakespearean drama. Contextualising Derrida's readings of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice and King Lear within his wider philosophical project, Alfano explores what draws Derrida to Shakespeare and what makes him particularly suitable for philosophical thought. The author also makes the case for Derrida's singular understanding of the relationship between philosophy and Shakespeare and his radical idea of what literary genius is.

Shakespeare's Philosophy

Author : Colin McGinn
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061751650
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Philosophy written by Colin McGinn and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare’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 judgment 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 for students who are discovering the greatest writer in English.

Double Vision

Author : Tzachi Zamir
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691155453
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Double Vision written by Tzachi Zamir and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-24 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hamlet 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.

A Philosophical Analysis and Illustration of Some of Shakespeare's Remarkable Characters

Author : William Richardson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book A Philosophical Analysis and Illustration of Some of Shakespeare's Remarkable Characters written by William Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shakespeare's Hamlet

Author : Tzachi Zamir
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190698519
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Hamlet written by Tzachi Zamir and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assembles a team of leading literary scholars and philosophers to probe philosophical questions that assert themselves in Shakespeare's Hamlet, including issues about subjectivity, knowledge, sex, grief, and self-theatricalization.

Shakespeare and Philosophy

Author : Stanley Stewart
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113517802X
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Philosophy written by Stanley Stewart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-04-02 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Touching on the work of philosophers including Richardson, Kant, Hume, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, and Dewey, this study examines the history of what philosophers have had to say about "Shakespeare" as a subject of philosophy, from the seventeenth-century to the present. Stewart's volume will be of interest to Shakespeareans, literary critics, and philosophers.

Philosophical Shakespeares

Author : John Joughin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134688482
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Shakespeares written by John Joughin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare continues to articulate the central problems of our intellectual inheritance. The plays of a Renaissance playwright still seem to be fundamental to our understanding and experience of modernity. Key philosophical questions concerning value, meaning and justice continue to resonate in Shakespeare's work. In the course of rethinking these issues, Philosophical Shakespeares actively encourages the growing dissolution of boundaries between literature and philosophy. The approach throughout is interdisciplinary, and ranges from problem-centred readings of particular plays to more general elaborations of the significance of Shakespeare in relation to individual thinkers or philosophical traditions.

The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Philosophy

Author : Craig Bourne
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317386892
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Philosophy written by Craig Bourne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iago’s ‘I am not what I am’ epitomises how Shakespeare’s work is rich in philosophy, from issues of deception and moral deviance to those concerning the complex nature of the self, the notions of being and identity, and the possibility or impossibility of self-knowledge and knowledge of others. Shakespeare’s plays and poems address subjects including ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and social and political philosophy. They also raise major philosophical questions about the nature of theatre, literature, tragedy, representation and fiction. The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Philosophy is the first major guide and reference source to Shakespeare and philosophy. It examines the following important topics: What roles can be played in an approach to Shakespeare by drawing on philosophical frameworks and the work of philosophers? What can philosophical theories of meaning and communication show about the dynamics of Shakespearean interactions and vice versa? How are notions such as political and social obligation, justice, equality, love, agency and the ethics of interpersonal relationships demonstrated in Shakespeare’s works? What do the plays and poems invite us to say about the nature of knowledge, belief, doubt, deception and epistemic responsibility? How can the ways in which Shakespeare’s characters behave illuminate existential issues concerning meaning, absurdity, death and nothingness? What might Shakespeare’s characters and their actions show about the nature of the self, the mind and the identity of individuals? How can Shakespeare’s works inform philosophical approaches to notions such as beauty, humour, horror and tragedy? How do Shakespeare’s works illuminate philosophical questions about the nature of fiction, the attitudes and expectations involved in engagement with theatre, and the role of acting and actors in creating representations? The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Philosophy is essential reading for students and researchers in aesthetics, philosophy of literature and philosophy of theatre, as well as those exploring Shakespeare in disciplines such as literature and theatre and drama studies. It is also relevant reading for those in areas of philosophy such as ethics, epistemology and philosophy of language.

Forgiving the Gift

Author : Sean Lawrence
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780271092966
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (929 download)

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Download or read book Forgiving the Gift written by Sean Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Original readings of Dr. Faustus, The Merchant of Venice, Edward II, King Lear, Titus Andronicus, and The Tempest, in which Sean Lawrence challenges the tendency to reflexively understand gifts as exchanges or negotiations. Lawrence uses the philosophies of Levinas and Derrida to argue that these plays depict a radical generosity that breaks the cycle self-interest"--Provided by publisher.

Stanley Cavell's American Dream

Author : Lawrence F. Rhu
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780823225965
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (259 download)

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Download or read book Stanley Cavell's American Dream written by Lawrence F. Rhu and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book states that, after Cavell's celebrated reading of 'King Lear' turned into a nightmarish meditation on Vietnam, he found a more audible voice. Here, the poetry of ideas and presence of mind that animate Cavell's writing receive readings attuned to the spirit of their composition and its enlivening powers.