Richard Gaskin

Othello and the Problem of Knowledge

Reading Shakespeare through Wittgenstein

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Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses the epistemological problems that Shakespeare explores in Othello. In particular, it uses the methods of analytic philosophy, especially the work of the later Wittgenstein, to characterize these problems and the play.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 228g
• ISBN-13: 9781032424941
• ISBN-10: 103242494X
• Artikelnr.: 71238155

Autorenporträt

Richard Gaskin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool, UK. He has published extensively in metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of literature, literary theory and criticism, and the classical tradition. His books include Language and World: A Defence of Linguistic Idealism (Routledge, 2020), Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature: A Philosophical Perspective (Routledge, 2018), and Language, Truth, and Literature: A Defence of Literary Humanism (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Shakespeare
Descartes
and Scepticism 2. Mind
Communication
and Deception 3. Deception
Soliloquy
and Knowledge 4. Epistemological Models of the Tragedy (I): Loss of Knowledge 5. Context
Scepticism
and the Philosophy Room 6. Epistemological Models of the Tragedy (II): Loss of Certainty 7. Certainty
Hinges
and the Counterfactual 8. Epilogue