Shakespeare and Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9780415998093 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 226 str.

Stanley Stewart

Opis

Touching on the work of philosophers including, Richardson, Kant, Hume, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, and Dewey, this study will examine the history of what philosophers have had to say about "Shakespeare" as a subject of philosophy, from the seventeenth-century to the present.  Stewart's volume will be of interest to both Shakespeareans, literary critics, and philosophers.

Spis treści

Abbreviations and Bibliographical Note Acknowledgments 1: Philosophy’s Shakespeare: Defining Terms 2: Philosophy’s Shakespeare: Breaking the Silence 3: Hume’s Shakespeare 4: "Philosophy" in Richardson’s Philosophical Analysis of Shakespeare 5: Enlightenment Shakespeare 6: Shakespeare and Subjectivity: Kierkegaard and Nietzsche 7: Pragmatism’s Shakespeare 8: Shakespeare and the "Limits of Wittgenstein’s World" 9: Shakespeare and "The Litrification of Philosophy" Appendix: The Evolution of Richardson’s Philosophical Analysis Notes Bibliography Index

O autorze

Stanley Stewart is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside.