Shakespeare and Continental Philosophy

Herausgeber: Ann Bates, Jennifer; Wilson, Richard

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Produktbeschreibung

'The contributors are all of high calibre and the essays are adventurous, refreshing and wide-ranging in their appeal. The book will make a substantial contribution to the task of exploring Shakespeare as a critical thinker.' Sarah T. Beckwith, Duke University The first collection to explore the interface between continental thinking and Shakespeare's plays This collection of fifteen essays by celebrated authors in Shakespeare studies and in continental philosophy brings the two fields into dialogue with each other. The contributors pair plays with one or more philosophers, drawing from current continental philosophy (e.g. Lacan, Foucault, Derrida), from the nineteenth-century continental tradition (e.g. Hegel, Kierkegaard), and from the early roots of continental tradition (e.g. Aristotle, Ibn Sina). Shakespeare is represented by a range of plays, including Hamlet, The Tempest, Richard II , A Midsummer Night's Dream, Troilus and Cressida, Coriolanus, As You Like It, as well as The Sonnets. List of contributors: Jennifer Ann Bates; Catherine Belsey; Edward S. Casey; Howard Caygill; Andrew Cutrofello; Bernard Freydberg; Peter Holbrook; James A. Knapp; Paul A. Kottman; Julia Reinhard Lupton; Christopher Norris; Christopher Pye; Nicholas Royle; Tom Stern; Richard Wilson Jennifer Ann Bates is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University. She is the author of Hegel's Theory of Imagination (2004) and Hegel and Shakespeare on Moral Imagination (2010) as well as journal articles in the Wallace Stevens Journal, the Journal for Environmental Ethics, Criticism, Philosophy Compass, and Memoria di Shakespeare. Richard Wilson is the Sir Peter Hall Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Kingston University, and the author or editor of numerous books on Shakespeare and theory, including Will Power: Studies in Shakespearean authority (1993), Secret Shakespeare: Essays on theatre, religion and resistance (2004), Shakespeare in French Theory: King of Shadows (2007), and Free Will: Art and power on Shakespeare's stage (2013).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780748695591
• ISBN-10: 0748695591
• Artikelnr.: 40509512

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)