Double vision : moral philosophy and Shakespearean drama
Hamlet tells Horatio that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in his philosophy. In Double Vision, philosopher and literary critic Tzachi Zamir argues that there are more things in Hamlet than are dreamt of--or at least conceded--by most philosophers. Making an original and persuasive case for the philosophical value of literature, Zamir suggests that certain important philosophical insights can be gained only through literature. But such insights cannot be reached if literature is deployed merely as an aesthetic sugaring of a conceptual pill. Philosophical knowledge i
eBook, English, ©2007
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., ©2007
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (xv, 234 pages) : illustrations
9781400827435, 9781282159211, 9786612159213, 1400827434, 1282159216, 6612159219
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Philosophical criticism in theory. The epistemological basis of philosophical criticism ; The moral basis of philosophical criticism ; Philosophical criticism and contemporary literary studies
Philosophical criticism in practice. A case of unfair proportions ; Upon one bank and shoal of time ; Love stories ; Making love ; On being too deeply loved ; Doing nothing ; King Lear's hidden tragedy
Appendix A: a note on Lear's motivation
Appendix B: a note on Shakespeare and rhetoric
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