Philosophical Shakespeares

Author : Colin McGinn
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780061751653

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Shakespeare's Philosophy by Colin McGinn Pdf

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.

Author : Paul A. Kottman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804759199

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Philosophers on Shakespeare by Paul A. Kottman Pdf

This volume assembles for the first time writings from the past two hundred years by philosophers engaging the dramatic work of William Shakespeare.

Author : John Joughin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134688494

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Philosophical Shakespeares by John Joughin Pdf

Philosophical Shakespeares focuses on and encourages the growing dissolution of boundaries between literature and philosophy. The approach is interdisciplinary and includes problem-centred readings of particular plays.

Author : Craig Bourne,Emily Caddick Bourne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317386896

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The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Philosophy by Craig Bourne,Emily Caddick Bourne Pdf

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.

Author : Tzachi Zamir
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780190698515

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Shakespeare's Hamlet by Tzachi Zamir Pdf

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.

Author : Sam Hall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317223603

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Shakespeare's Folly by Sam Hall Pdf

This study contends that folly is of fundamental importance to the implicit philosophical vision of Shakespeare’s drama. The discourse of folly’s wordplay, jubilant ironies, and vertiginous paradoxes furnish Shakespeare with a way of understanding that lays bare the hypocrisies and absurdities of the serious world. Like Erasmus, More, and Montaigne before him, Shakespeare employs folly as a mode of understanding that does not arrogantly insist upon the veracity of its own claims – a fool’s truth, after all, is spoken by a fool. Yet, as this study demonstrates, Shakespearean folly is not the sole preserve of professional jesters and garrulous clowns, for it is also apparent on a thematic, conceptual, and formal level in virtually all of his plays. Examining canonical histories, comedies, and tragedies, this study is the first to either contextualize Shakespearean folly within European humanist thought, or to argue that Shakespeare’s philosophy of folly is part of a subterranean strand of Western philosophy, which itself reflects upon the folly of the wise. This strand runs from the philosopher-fool Socrates through to Montaigne and on to Nietzsche, but finds its most sustained expression in the Critical Theory of the mid to late twentieth-century, when the self-destructive potential latent in rationality became an historical reality. This book makes a substantial contribution to the fields of Shakespeare, Renaissance humanism, Critical Theory, and Literature and Philosophy. It illustrates, moreover, how rediscovering the philosophical potential of folly may enable us to resist the growing dominance of instrumental thought in the cultural sphere.

Author : Stanley Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780415998093

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Shakespeare and Philosophy by Stanley Stewart Pdf

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.

Author : Stanley Stewart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135178024

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Shakespeare and Philosophy by Stanley Stewart Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Philosophy in literature
ISBN : OCLC:760725361

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Philosophical Shakespeares by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stanley Stewart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781135178031

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Shakespeare and Philosophy by Stanley Stewart Pdf

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.

Author : Farhang Zabeeh
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781616146535

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Philosophical Pearls of the Shakespearean Deep by Farhang Zabeeh Pdf

Offers many fresh insights that will give even longtime readers of Shakespeare a new appreciation of the great master. Scholars have long debated the extent of Shakespeare's education. Although his friend and admirer Ben Jonson said of him, "thou hadst small Latine and lesse Greek," Shakespeare's plays reveal a wide familiarity with literary and philosophical works from the Renaissance, the Middle Ages, and the classical age. Philosopher Farhang Zabeeh delves into this fascinating topic in this detailed study of the philosophical influences evident in Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. Readers will be surprised and delighted to discover in Shakespeare unmistakable echoes of Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Dante, Montaigne, and other famous thinkers. In one chapter, the author makes a convincing case that one of the bard's most famous comic characters, John Falstaff, is a parody of Socrates. In other chapters, he demonstrates indirect references to Plato in Shakespearean passages concerning appearance versus reality, as well as the influence of Aristotle's ethics. Other common philosophical themes evident in the plays concern the nature of time, subjectivity versus objectivity, and political and moral values.

Author : Agnes Heller
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0742512517

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The Time is Out of Joint by Agnes Heller Pdf

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!

Author : Sam Hall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317223597

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Shakespeare's Folly by Sam Hall Pdf

This study contends that folly is of fundamental importance to the implicit philosophical vision of Shakespeare’s drama. The discourse of folly’s wordplay, jubilant ironies, and vertiginous paradoxes furnish Shakespeare with a way of understanding that lays bare the hypocrisies and absurdities of the serious world. Like Erasmus, More, and Montaigne before him, Shakespeare employs folly as a mode of understanding that does not arrogantly insist upon the veracity of its own claims – a fool’s truth, after all, is spoken by a fool. Yet, as this study demonstrates, Shakespearean folly is not the sole preserve of professional jesters and garrulous clowns, for it is also apparent on a thematic, conceptual, and formal level in virtually all of his plays. Examining canonical histories, comedies, and tragedies, this study is the first to either contextualize Shakespearean folly within European humanist thought, or to argue that Shakespeare’s philosophy of folly is part of a subterranean strand of Western philosophy, which itself reflects upon the folly of the wise. This strand runs from the philosopher-fool Socrates through to Montaigne and on to Nietzsche, but finds its most sustained expression in the Critical Theory of the mid to late twentieth-century, when the self-destructive potential latent in rationality became an historical reality. This book makes a substantial contribution to the fields of Shakespeare, Renaissance humanism, Critical Theory, and Literature and Philosophy. It illustrates, moreover, how rediscovering the philosophical potential of folly may enable us to resist the growing dominance of instrumental thought in the cultural sphere.

Author : T. Burns
Publisher : Springer
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137314659

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Shakespeare’s Political Wisdom by T. Burns Pdf

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.

Author : Richard Simpson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HNJLQ6

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An Introduction to the Philosophy of Shakespeare's Sonnets by Richard Simpson Pdf