Shakespeare and the Truth-Teller - Confronting the Cynic Ideal

Klappentext Highlighting the necessity of literary thinking to political philosophy, this book explores Shakespeare's responses to sixteenth-century debates over the revolutionary potential of Cynic critical activity. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: Our Cynic Legacy1. Cynicism and the Courage of Truth2. The Realist Turn: Parrhêsia, Character, and the Limits of DidacticismPart II: Shakespeare's Cynics3. Shakespeare's Bitter Fool: The Politics and Aesthetics of Free Speech4. Cynicism, Melancholy, and Hamlet's Memento Moriae5. Cash is King: Timon, Diogenes, and the Search for Sovereign FreedomCodaIndex

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• Authors: David Hershinow, Hershinow David
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781474439572
• ISBN: 978-1-4744-3957-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in; Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy; Edinburgh Critical Studies in
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous