Deadly Thought - Hamlet and the Human Soul

Informationen zum Autor Jan H. Blits is Professor, Honors Faculty, at the University of Delaware. He is the author of The Insufficiency of Virtue: 'Macbeth' and the Natural Order (1996), and The End of the Ancient Republic: Essays on 'Julius Caesar'(1993). Klappentext The human soul is for pre-modern philosophers the cause of both thinking and life. This double aspect of the soul, which makes man a rational animal, expresses itself above all in human action. Deadly Thought: "Hamlet" and the Human Soul traces Hamlet's famous inability to act to his inability to hold together these twin aspects of the soul. Zusammenfassung The human soul is for pre-modern philosophers the cause of both thinking and life. This double aspect of the soul! which makes man a rational animal! expresses itself above all in human action. Deadly Thought: "Hamlet" and the Human Soul traces Hamlet's famous inability to act to his inability to hold together these twin aspects of the soul. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Act One Chapter 4 Act Two Chapter 5 Act Three Chapter 6 Act Four Chapter 7 Act Five Chapter 8 Index Chapter 9 About the Author

Product details

• Authors: Jan H. Blits, Blits Jan H.
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.01.2001
• EAN: 9780739102152
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-0215-2
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: Applications of Political Theory
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / General, English, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, Philosophy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Relating to Shakespeare / Shakespearean