Had I but Time... I Could Tell You: Hamlet's Unspoken Dialectic with Descartes, Kant, and Heidegger
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| Title: | Had I but Time... I Could Tell You: Hamlet's Unspoken Dialectic with Descartes, Kant, and Heidegger |
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| Description: | Had I But Time... I Could Tell You: Hamlet's Unspoken Dialectic with Descartes, Kant, and Heidegger portrays Shakespeare, via Hamlet and the Hamlet text, as a poet/proto-modern philosopher whose implicit commitment to an understanding of the philosophical nature of time, human thought, and being, is more systematically and explicitly developed by later philosophical thinkers. Locating important resonances and dissonances between the ideas of the philosophical figures and the Hamlet text, a dialectic is created whereby a reading of their philosophical ideas is possible through the lens of the Hamlet text, just as the Hamlet text can be read via the lenses of their philosophical ideas. “DeCarlo attempts to solicit, in the etymological sense of shaking up, the whole Hamlet edifice by elaborating a radical re-reading not only of Shakespeare's most canonical and hyper-interpreted play but also of Hamlet as Shakespeare's philosophical persona, that is, of Hamlet as an ad hoc philosopher who operates in terms of a dialectic between concept and figure and who authors a discourse that at once foreshadows and haunts the subsequent unfolding of Western philosophy in ways heretofore unacknowledged. DeCarlo sets out in his brilliant and compelling project by operating as a literary critic, philosopher, and historian — or better, genealogist — of ideas. His methodology is that of a hermeneutics of risk, encountering and being struck by the text's “theater-ideas” and by examining the way in which theater (Hamlet) thinks. In doing so, the monograph takes the sort of interdisciplinary and hermeneutic risks that should inform contemporary work in the humanities.” |
| Authors: | John DeCarlo |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Hamlet (Legendary character) |
| Categories: | DRAMA / Shakespeare |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Had I But Time... I Could Tell You: Hamlet's Unspoken Dialectic with Descartes, Kant, and Heidegger portrays Shakespeare, via Hamlet and the Hamlet text, as a poet/proto-modern philosopher whose implicit commitment to an understanding of the philosophical nature of time, human thought, and being, is more systematically and explicitly developed by later philosophical thinkers. Locating important resonances and dissonances between the ideas of the philosophical figures and the Hamlet text, a dialectic is created whereby a reading of their philosophical ideas is possible through the lens of the Hamlet text, just as the Hamlet text can be read via the lenses of their philosophical ideas. “DeCarlo attempts to solicit, in the etymological sense of shaking up, the whole Hamlet edifice by elaborating a radical re-reading not only of Shakespeare's most canonical and hyper-interpreted play but also of Hamlet as Shakespeare's philosophical persona, that is, of Hamlet as an ad hoc philosopher who operates in terms of a dialectic between concept and figure and who authors a discourse that at once foreshadows and haunts the subsequent unfolding of Western philosophy in ways heretofore unacknowledged. DeCarlo sets out in his brilliant and compelling project by operating as a literary critic, philosopher, and historian — or better, genealogist — of ideas. His methodology is that of a hermeneutics of risk, encountering and being struck by the text's “theater-ideas” and by examining the way in which theater (Hamlet) thinks. In doing so, the monograph takes the sort of interdisciplinary and hermeneutic risks that should inform contemporary work in the humanities.” |
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| ISBN: | 9781612290201 9781612290218 |
