Andy Amato

The Ethical Imagination in Shakespeare and Heidegger (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

While large bodies of scholarship exist on the plays of Shakespeare and the philosophy of Heidegger, this book is the first to read these two influential figures alongside one another, and to reveal how they can help us develop a creative and contemplative sense of ethics, or an 'ethical imagination'.

Following the increased interest in reading Shakespeare philosophically, it seems only fitting that an encounter take place between the English language's most prominent poet and the philosopher widely considered to be central to continental philosophy. Interpreting the plays of Shakespeare through the writings of Heidegger and vice versa, each chapter pairs a select play with a select work of philosophy. In these pairings the themes, events, and arguments of each work are first carefully unpacked, and then key passages and concepts are taken up and read against and through one another. As these hermeneutic engagements and cross-readings unfold we find that the words and deeds of Shakespeare's characters uniquely illuminate, and are uniquely illuminated by, Heidegger's phenomenological analyses of being, language, and art.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350083684
• Artikelnr.: 54882824

Autorenporträt

Andy Amato is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Dallas, USA. He is author of The Ethical Imagination in Shakespeare and Heidegger (Bloomsbury, 2019).