Shakespeare's Hamlet : philosophical perspectives
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Shakespeare's Hamlet : philosophical perspectives
（Oxford studies in philosophy and literature / Richard Eldridge）
Oxford University Press, c2018
- : cloth
Available at 3 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Does philosophy gain or lose when it is embedded within literature or embodied by drama? Does literary criticism gain or lose when it turns to literary works as occasions for abstract reflection? Leading literary scholars and philosophers interrogate philosophical dimensions of Shakespeare's Hamlet with these urgent questions in view.
Scholars probe Hamlet's own insights, assess the significance of philosophy's literary-dramatic framing by this play, and trace the philosophically-relevant underpinnings revealed by historical transformations in Hamlet's reception. They focus on the play's thematizations of subjectivity, knowledge, sex, grief, self-theatricalization.
Examining Shakespeare's play from a philosophical standpoint sharpens the questions the play itself so famously poses: What counts as a proper response to injustice upon realizing that whatever one does, there can be no undoing of the initial wrong? What do our commitments to the dead amount to? How to persist in infusing significance into action while grasping the degradation of death and our own replaceability? Scholars at the forefront of their fields tackle these and other questions from a
wide range of viewpoints, illuminating the central concerns of one of Shakespeare's masterpieces.
Table of Contents
Series Editor's Foreword, Richard Eldridge
Editor's Introduction, Tzachi Zamir
Chapter 1. On (Not) Making Oneself Known John Gibson
Chapter 2. Staging Wisdom through Hamlet Paul Woodruff
Chapter 3. Philosophical Sex David Hillman
Chapter 4. Self-uncertainty as self-realization Paul A. Kottman
Chapter 5. Hamlet's "Now" of Inward Being Sanford Budick
Chapter 6. To Thine Own Selves be True-ish: Shakespeare's Hamlet as Formal Model Joshua Landy
Chapter 7. "Unpacking the heart": Why it is impossible to say "I love you" in Hamlet's Elsinore David Schalkwyk
Chapter 8. Hamlet's Ethics Sarah Beckwith
Chapter 9. Interpreting Hamlet: The Early German Reception Kristin Gjesdal
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