Shakespeare and Philosophy

Informationen zum Autor Stanley Stewart is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. Klappentext Touching on the work of philosophers including Richardson, Kant, Hume, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, and Dewey, this study examines 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 Shakespeareans, literary critics, and philosophers. Zusammenfassung Touching on the work of philosophers including Richardson, Kant, Hume, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, and Dewey, this study examines the history of what philosophers have had to say about "Shakespeare" as a subject of philosophy, from the seventeenth-century to the present. Stanley Stewart's volume will be of interest to Shakespeareans, literary critics, and philosophers. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Stanley Stewart, Stanley (University of California Stewart, Stewart Stanley
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.08.2011
• EAN: 9780415809085
• ISBN: 978-0-415-80908-5
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; PHILOSOPHY / General, English, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Philosophy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, Literary studies: general, Western philosophy from c 1800, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Shakespeare Plays, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean