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Reading Shakespeare through Philosophy advocates that the beauty of
Shakespearean drama is inseparable from its philosophical power.
Shakespeare's plays make demands on us even beyond our linguistic
attention and historical empathy: they require thinking, and the
concepts of philosophy can provide us with tools to aid us in that
thinking. This volume examines how philosophy can help us to
re-imagine Shakespeare's treatment of individuality, character, and
destiny, particularly at certain moments in a play when a
character's relationship to space or time becomes an enigma to us.
The author focuses on the dramatization of seemingly magical
relationships between the individual and the cosmos, exploring and
rethinking the meanings of 'individual', 'cosmos' and 'magic'
through a conceptually acute reading of Shakespeare's plays. This
book draws upon a variety of thinkers including Plato, Aristotle,
Leibniz and Kant, in search of a revitalized philosophical
criticism of Julius Caesar, Love's Labor's Lost, The Merchant of
Venice, Timon of Athens, and Twelfth Night.
Hate, malice, rage, and enmity: what would Shakespeare's plays be
without these demonic, unruly passions? This book studies how the
tirades and unrestrained villainy of Shakespeare's art explode the
decorum and safety of our sanitized lives and challenge the limits
of our selfhood. Everyone knows Shakespeare to be the exemplary
poet of love, but how many celebrate his clarifying expressions of
hatred? How many of us do not at some time feel that we have come
away from his plays transformed by hate and washed clean by savage
indignation? Saval fills the great gap in the interpretation of
Shakespeare's unsocial feelings. The book asserts that emotions, as
Aristotle claims in the Rhetoric, are connected to judgments. Under
such a view, hatred and rage in Shakespeare cease to be a
"blinding" of judgment or a loss of reason, but become claims upon
the world that can be evaluated and interpreted. The literary
criticism of anger and hate provides an alternative vision of the
experience of Shakespeare's theater as an intensification of human
experience that takes us far beyond criticism's traditional
contexts of character, culture, and ethics. The volume, which is
alive to the judgmental character of emotions, transforms the way
we see the rancorous passions and the disorderly and disobedient
demands of anger and hatred. Above all, it reminds us why
Shakespeare is the exemplary creator of that rare yet pleasurable
thing: a good hater.
Hate, malice, rage, and enmity: what would Shakespeare's plays be
without these demonic, unruly passions? This book studies how the
tirades and unrestrained villainy of Shakespeare's art explode the
decorum and safety of our sanitized lives and challenge the limits
of our selfhood. Everyone knows Shakespeare to be the exemplary
poet of love, but how many celebrate his clarifying expressions of
hatred? How many of us do not at some time feel that we have come
away from his plays transformed by hate and washed clean by savage
indignation? Saval fills the great gap in the interpretation of
Shakespeare's unsocial feelings. The book asserts that emotions, as
Aristotle claims in the Rhetoric, are connected to judgments. Under
such a view, hatred and rage in Shakespeare cease to be a
"blinding" of judgment or a loss of reason, but become claims upon
the world that can be evaluated and interpreted. The literary
criticism of anger and hate provides an alternative vision of the
experience of Shakespeare's theater as an intensification of human
experience that takes us far beyond criticism's traditional
contexts of character, culture, and ethics. The volume, which is
alive to the judgmental character of emotions, transforms the way
we see the rancorous passions and the disorderly and disobedient
demands of anger and hatred. Above all, it reminds us why
Shakespeare is the exemplary creator of that rare yet pleasurable
thing: a good hater.
Reading Shakespeare through Philosophy advocates that the beauty of
Shakespearean drama is inseparable from its philosophical power.
Shakespeare's plays make demands on us even beyond our linguistic
attention and historical empathy: they require thinking, and the
concepts of philosophy can provide us with tools to aid us in that
thinking. This volume examines how philosophy can help us to
re-imagine Shakespeare's treatment of individuality, character, and
destiny, particularly at certain moments in a play when a
character's relationship to space or time becomes an enigma to us.
The author focuses on the dramatization of seemingly magical
relationships between the individual and the cosmos, exploring and
rethinking the meanings of 'individual', 'cosmos' and 'magic'
through a conceptually acute reading of Shakespeare's plays. This
book draws upon a variety of thinkers including Plato, Aristotle,
Leibniz and Kant, in search of a revitalized philosophical
criticism of Julius Caesar, Love's Labor's Lost, The Merchant of
Venice, Timon of Athens, and Twelfth Night.
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