Double Vision: Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean DramaHamlet 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 is not opposed to, but is consonant with, the literariness of literature. By focusing on the experience of reading literature as literature and not philosophy, Zamir sets a theoretical framework for a philosophically oriented literary criticism that will appeal both to philosophers and literary critics. |
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... constitute much of our response to the play. They always did. Yet it is precisely here that various approaches within contemporary literary studies and within philosophy are prompted to hold up “No Entry” signs. Philosophically attuned ...
... constitute them is one of the principal aims of this book. The secondary reason for choosing Shakespeare is that his work exemplifies literary excellence. The uncontested aesthetic value of his plays enables investigation into what ...
... constitute my proposed account of understanding. In what follows, I claim that by allowing the two distinct outlooks of philosophy and literature to interplay when some issues are at stake there emerges a kind of thought—a form of ...
... constitutes not only an intriguing form of objectification but also of articulating erotic bonding. The beloved, likened to one's expressed language, is being fantasized as the lover's externalized and objectified thought, which is also ...
... constitute specific beliefs that cannot otherwise surface.10 Neoromantic accounts of reading experience stress the role of the imagination in belief formation. If the imagination plays a constitutive role in belief formation, we need to ...
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