Philosophical Shakespeares / edited by John J. Joughin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Joughin, John J.

Series:

Accents on Shakespeare.

Accents on Shakespeare

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Philosophy.

Shakespeare, William.

Philosophy in literature.

Physical Description:

xiv, 130p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

chapter 1 Philosophical Shakespeares: an introduction / John J.Joughin

chapter 2 How many children did she have? / Michael D.Bristol

chapter 3 On the need for a differentiated theory of (early) modern subjects / Hugh Grady

chapter 4 We were never early modern / Linda Charnes

chapter 5 Violence and philosophy: Nathaniel Merriman, A.W.Schlegel and Jack Cade

chapter 6 Reading Shakespeare with intensity: A commentary on some lines from Nietzsche's Ecce Homo / Scott Wilson

chapter 7 Shakespeare's monster of nothing / Howard Caygill.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [115]-124) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-68848-2

0-415-17388-4

1-134-68849-0

0-203-40038-0

1-280-02077-6

9780203400388

OCLC:

437082733