Shakespeare's Hamlet : philosophical perspectives /

This book assembles a team of leading literary scholars and philosophers to probe philosophical questions that assert themselves in Shakespeare's Hamlet, including issues about subjectivity, knowledge, sex, grief, and self-theatricalization.

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Group Author: Zamir, Tzachi, 1967
Published: Oxford University Press,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: [2018]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Oxford studies in philosophy and literature
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Summary: This book assembles a team of leading literary scholars and philosophers to probe philosophical questions that assert themselves in Shakespeare's Hamlet, including issues about subjectivity, knowledge, sex, grief, and self-theatricalization.
Carrier Form: xv, 275 pages ; 21 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780190698522 (paperback) :
0190698527 (paperback)
Index Number: PR2807
CLC: I561.073
Call Number: I561.073/S527-73
Contents: Introduction / Tzachi Zamir -- On (not) making oneself known / John Gibson -- Staging wisdom through Hamlet / Paul Woodruff -- Philosophical sex / David Hillman -- Self-uncertainty as self-realization / Paul A. Kottman -- Hamlet's "now" of inward being / Sanford Budick -- To thine own selves be true-ish: Shakespeare's Hamlet as formal model / Joshua Landy -- "Unpacking the heart": why it is impossible to say "I love you" in Hamlet's Elsinore / David Schalkwyk -- Hamlet's ethics / Sarah Beckwith -- Interpreting Hamlet: the early German reception / Kristin Gjesdal.