Shakespeare and continental philosophy

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bates, Jennifer Ann, 1964- editor.

Wilson, Richard, 1950- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Philosophy in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Edinburgh University Press 2014

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Essays by leading authors on Shakespeare drawing on contemporary and early continental philosophyGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748694945','ISBN:9780748695591','ISBN:9780748694952,'ISBN:9780748694976'']);This collection of 15 essays by celebrated authors in Shakespeare studies and in continental philosophy develops different aspects of the interface between continental thinking and Shakespeare's plays. The authors draw from current continental philosophy (e.g. Lacan, Foucault, Derrida) as well as from the 19th century continental tradition (e.g. Hegel, Kierkegaard) and from the early roots of continental tradition (e.g. Aristotle, Ibn Sina). The chapters address the span of the tragedies, comedies and history plays in the light of thinkers as diverse as Aristotle, Ibn Sina and Jean-Luc Marion, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Schmitt, Arendt, Lacan, Levinas, Foucault and Derrida.Key Features:The blend of new work and classic position papers provides a thorough overview of Shakespeare and continental thoughtSheds new light on Shakespeare and on continental philosophyAuthors in the collection are leaders in each discipline in the US and UK / Europe and include: Edward S. Casey, Howard Caygill, Paul A. Kottman, Julia Reinhard Lupton, Christopher Norris, Nicholas Royle, Catherine Belsey"

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Part One: The Play’s the Thing

1 ‘The Charm Dissolves Apace’: Shakespeare and the Selfdissolution of Drama (The Tempest, Aristotle and Hegel)

2 Hamlet and Kierkegaard on Outwitting Recollection (Hamlet and Kierkegaard’s Concluding Unscientific Postscript)

3 Schopenhauer’s Shakespeare: The Genius on the World Stage

4 Nietzsche’s Shakespeare

5 Richard II’s Silent, Tortured Soul (Nietzsche, Merleau- Ponty, Jean-Luc Marion, and Levinas)

Part Two: That Wide Gap

6 Is Othello Jealous? Coleridge and Russell contra Wittgenstein and Cavell

7 Hamlet on the Edge (Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty)

8 Levinas and Shakespeare

9 Contra Schmitt: Law, Aesthetics and Absolutism in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale (Carl Schmitt)

10 Arendt in Italy: Or, the Taming of the Shrew (Hannah Arendt, Giorgio Agamben and Roberto Esposito)

Part Three: Damnable Iteration

11 Ship of Fools: Foucault and the Shakespeareans

12 Antinomies of Desire: Lacanian Psychoanalysis and the Sonnets (Jacques Lacan and François Lyotard)

13 ‘No’ as Affirmation: A Continental-Philosophical Reading of Coriolanus

14 Provoking Philosophy: Shakespeare, Johnson, Wittgenstein, Derrida

15 Miracle Play (Jacques Derrida)

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780748694952

0748694951

9781785390586

1785390589

OCLC:

1301548610