Evolving Hamlet: Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy and the Ethics of Natural Selection

ISBN-13: 9780230111684 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 192 str.

Angus Fletcher

Opis

Where science has often been used to explore the questions raised by art, this book does the reverse, suggesting that art can address a problem raised by science: the deep challenge to ethics posed by Darwin's discovery that we are intentional beings living in an unintentional world. Using Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth, among others, Angus Fletcher shows how the physical experience of art can transform Darwin's discouraging theory into a practice-based ethics that establishes pluralism, curiosity, and cooperation as the basis of progressive life.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Descent of Ethics Faustus, Macbeth , and The Riddle of Tomorrow Partial Belief in Julius Caesar and Hamlet Othello and the Subject of Ocular Proof The Indian Emperor and the Reason of New World Conflict Cartesian Pity and the New Shakespeare King Lear and the Endurance of Tragedy The Progress of Ethics

O autorze

ANGUS FLETCHER Assistant Professor of Critical Studies at UCLA, USA.