Shakespeare and Continental Philosophy

Jennifer Bates; Richard Wilson

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2014

Shakespeare and Continental Philosophy

Jennifer Bates and Richard Wilson

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748694952

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Essays by leading authors on Shakespeare drawing on contemporary and early continental philosophy

This collection of 15 essays by celebrated authors in Shakespeare studies and in continental philosophy develops different aspects of the interface between continental thinking and Shakespeare's plays. The authors draw from current continental philosophy (e.g. Lacan, Foucault, Derrida) as well as from the 19th century continental tradition (e.g. Hegel, Kierkegaard) and from the early roots of continental tradition (e.g. Aristotle, Ibn Sina). The chapters address the span of the tragedies, comedies and history plays in the light of thinkers as diverse as Aristotle, Ibn Sina and Jean-Luc Marion, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Schmitt, Arendt, Lacan, Levinas, Foucault and Derrida.

Key Features:

The blend of new work and classic position papers provides a thorough overview of Shakespeare and continental thought
Sheds new light on Shakespeare and on continental philosophy
Authors in the collection are leaders in each discipline in the US and UK / Europe and include: Edward S. Casey, Howard Caygill, Paul A. Kottman, Julia Reinhard Lupton, Christopher Norris, Nicholas Royle, Catherine Belsey

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Foreword Michael Witmore Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Notes on Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Introduction Richard Wilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One: The Play’s the Thing
1 ‘The Charm Dissolves Apace’: Shakespeare and the Selfdissolution of Drama (The Tempest, Aristotle and Hegel) Paul A. Kottman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2 Hamlet and Kierkegaard on Outwitting Recollection (Hamlet and Kierkegaard’s Concluding Unscientific Postscript) Jennifer Ann Bates Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
3 Schopenhauer’s Shakespeare: The Genius on the World Stage Tom Stern Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
4 Nietzsche’s Shakespeare Peter Holbrook Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
5 Richard II’s Silent, Tortured Soul (Nietzsche, Merleau- Ponty, Jean-Luc Marion, and Levinas) James A. Knapp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
Part Two: That Wide Gap
6 Is Othello Jealous? Coleridge and Russell contra Wittgenstein and Cavell Andrew Cutrofello Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
7 Hamlet on the Edge (Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty) Edward S. Casey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
8 Levinas and Shakespeare Howard Caygil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
9 Contra Schmitt: Law, Aesthetics and Absolutism in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale (Carl Schmitt) Christopher Pye Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
10 Arendt in Italy: Or, the Taming of the Shrew (Hannah Arendt, Giorgio Agamben and Roberto Esposito) Julia Reinhard Lupton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Part Three: Damnable Iteration
11 Ship of Fools: Foucault and the Shakespeareans Richard Wilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
12 Antinomies of Desire: Lacanian Psychoanalysis and the Sonnets (Jacques Lacan and François Lyotard) Catherine Belsey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
13 ‘No’ as Affirmation: A Continental-Philosophical Reading of Coriolanus Bernard Freydberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	236
14 Provoking Philosophy: Shakespeare, Johnson, Wittgenstein, Derrida Christopher Norris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
15 Miracle Play (Jacques Derrida) Nicholas Royle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	298

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 288
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: September 10, 2014
ISBN: 9780748694952