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The Time Is Out of Joint - Shakespeare as Philosopher of History (Paperback)
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The Time Is Out of Joint - Shakespeare as Philosopher of History (Paperback)
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The Time Is Out of Joint handles the Shakespearean oeuvre from a
philosophical perspective, finding that Shakespeare's historical
dramas reflect on issues and reveal puzzles which were taken up by
philosophy proper only in the centuries following them.
Shakespeare's extraordinary handling of time and temporality, the
difference between truth and fact, that of theory, and that of
interpretation and revelatory truth are evaluated in terms of
Shakespeare's own conjectural endeavors, and are compared with
early modern, modern, and postmodern thought. Heller shows that
modernity, which recognized itself in Shakespeare only from the
time of Romanticism, found in Shakespeare's work a revelatory
character which marked the end of both metaphysical system-building
and a tragic reckoning with the inaccessibility of an absolute,
timeless truth. Heller distinguishes the four stages found in
constantly unique relation in Shakespeare's work (historical,
personal, political, and existential) and probes their significance
as time comes to fall 'out of joint' and may be again set aright.
Rather than initially bestowing upon Shakespeare the dubious
honorary title of philosopher, Heller probes the concretely
situated reflections of characters who must face a blind and
irrational fate either without taking responsibility for the
discordance of time, or with a responsibility which may both
transform history into politics, and set right the time which is
out of joint. In the ruminations and undertakings of these
characters, Shakespeare's dramas present a philosophy of history, a
political philosophy, and a philosophy of (im)moral personality.
Heller weighs each as distinctly modern confrontations with the
possibility of truth and virtue within a human historical condition
no less multifarious for its momentariness.
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