Philosophers on Shakespeare (Paperback or Softback)

Kottman, Paul A.

ISBN 10: 0804759200 / ISBN 13: 9780804759205

Verlag: Stanford University Press 8/4/2009, 2009

Philosophers on Shakespeare. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers BBS-9780804759205

Inhaltsangabe:

A number of the most influential thinkers of the past two hundred and fifty years, Herder, Goethe, Hegel, Benjamin, Marx, Schmitt, Lukács, Derrida, Cavell, Agnes Heller, and others, have grappled with Shakespeare. This is the first volume to bring together their engagements with his drama, which are part of an underexplored philosophical tradition. Philosophers on Shakespeare comes at a time when the critical paradigm of Shakespeare studies in the academy is shifting from a historicist and cultural materialist model toward a renewed interest in theoretical readings of the plays. Shakespeare's work is currently being taught and performed more than ever, and there is a proliferation of new critical editions of the plays themselves to which this volume will serve as a timely and much-needed companion. It is useful for the light it sheds on individual plays as well as for its survey of literary criticism, aesthetic theory, theories of tragedy and dramatic criticism since the mid-eighteenth century.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Paul A. Kottman is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the New School, where he teaches at Eugene Lang College, the New School for Liberal Arts, and in Liberal Studies at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of A Politics of the Scene (Stanford, 2008) and Tragic Conditions in Shakespeare (2009).

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Philosophers on Shakespeare (Paperback or ...
Verlag: Stanford University Press 8/4/2009
Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
Einband: Paperback or Softback
Zustand: New
Art des Buches: Book