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Shakespeare as a Way of Life - Skeptical Practice and the Politics of Weakness (Hardcover)
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Shakespeare as a Way of Life - Skeptical Practice and the Politics of Weakness (Hardcover)
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Shakespeare as a Way of Life shows how reading Shakespeare helps us
to live with epistemological weakness and even to practice this
weakness, to make it a way of life. In a series of close readings,
Kuzner shows how Hamlet, Lucrece, Othello, The Winter's Tale, The
Tempest, and Timon of Athens, impel us to grapple with basic
uncertainties: how we can be free, whether the world is abundant,
whether we have met the demands of love and social life. To Kuzner,
Shakespeare's skepticism doesn't have the enabling potential of
Keats's heroic "negativity capability," but neither is that
skepticism the corrosive disease that necessarily issues in
tragedy. While sensitive to both possibilities, Kuzner offers a way
to keep negative capability negative while making skepticism
livable. Rather than light the way to empowered, liberal
subjectivity, Shakespeare's works demand lasting disorientation,
demand that we practice the impractical so as to reshape the frames
by which we view and negotiate the world. The act of reading
Shakespeare cannot yield the practical value that cognitive
scientists and literary critics attribute to it. His work neither
clarifies our sense of ourselves, of others, or of the world; nor
heartens us about the human capacity for insight and invention; nor
sharpens our ability to appreciate and adjudicate complex problems
of ethics and politics. Shakespeare's plays, rather, yield
cognitive discomforts, and it is just these discomforts that make
them worthwhile.
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