Shakespeare and Continental Philosophy (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Bates, Jennifer Ann; Wilson, Richard

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Essays by leading authors on Shakespeare drawing on contemporary and early continental philosophyThis 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Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Schmitt, Arendt, Lacan, Levinas, Foucault and Derrida.Key Features:The blend of new work (10 unpublished essays) and classic position papers (5 reprints) provides a thorough overview of Shakespeare and continental thoughtSheds new light on Shakespeare and on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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748694976
• Artikelnr.: 56904417

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Bates is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University. She specialises in 19th-Century German Philosophy with an emphasis on Hegel. She is the author of two books: Hegel's Theory of Imagination (SUNY, 2004) and Hegel and Shakespeare on Moral Imagination (SUNY, 2010). Richard Wilson is Sir Peter Hall Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Kingston University, London, and the author of Free Will: Art and power on Shakespeare's stage; Shakespeare in French Theory: King of Shadows; Secret Shakespeare: Essays on theatre, religion and resistance; and Will Power: Studies in Shakespearean authority. He was described by the critic A.D, Nuttall as 'perhaps the most brilliant of the Shakespearean historicists'.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Michael Witmore; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors;
Introduction: Richard Wilson; Part I: The Play's The Thing; 1. Paul A.
Kottman: '"The Charm Dissolves Apace:" Shakespeare and the Self-dissolution
of Drama' (The Tempest, Aristotle and Hegel); 2. Jennifer Ann Bates:
'Hamlet and Kierkegaard on Outwitting Recollection' (Hamlet and
Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript); 3. Tom Stern:
'Schopenhauer's Shakespeare: The Genius on the World Stage'; 4. Peter
Holbrook: 'Nietzsche's Shakespeare'; 5. James A. Knapp: 'Richard II's
Silent, Tortured Soul' (Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Luc Marion, and
Levinas); Part II: That Wide Gap; 6. Andrew Cutrofello: 'Is Othello
Jealous? Coleridge and Russell contra Wittgenstein and Cavell'; 7. Edward
S. Casey: 'Hamlet on the Edge' (Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty); 8. Howard
Caygill: 'Levinas and Shakespeare'; 9. Christopher Pye: 'Contra Schmitt:
Law, Aesthetics, and Absolutism in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale' (Carl
Schmitt); 10. Julia Reinhard Lupton 'Arendt in Italy: Or, the Taming of the
Shrew' (Hannah Arendt, Giorgio Agamben and Roberto Esposito); Part III:
Damnable Iteration; 11. Richard Wilson: 'Ship of Fools: Foucault and the
Shakespeareans; 12. Catherine Belsey: 'Antinomies of Desire: Lacanian
Psychoanalysis and the Sonnets'; 13. Bernard Freydberg '"No" as
Affirmation: A Continental-Philosophical Reading of Coriolanus'; 14.
Christopher Norris: 'Provoking Philosophy: Shakespeare, Johnson,
Wittgenstein, and Derrida'; 15. Nicholas Royle 'Miracle Play' (Jacques
Derrida)