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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... example, explaining the cognitive gains of literary as opposed to non-literary articulations of the same philosophical insight will typically draw the philosophical critic into a roughly formalist stance. Irreducible “aesthetic ...
... example, will merely succeed in proving to philosophers that they require figurative statements, not the rich, involving experience of the literary work.7 This rather underrated objection is also fatal to other suggestions as. 2 For ...
... example. See also De Man's (1978) reading of Locke. 8 Lamarque and Olsen (1994) present a variation on this theme: “. . . [literature] . . . develops themes that are only vaguely felt or formulated in daily life and gives them a local ...
... examples and enthymemes in his Rhetoric remains the fountainhead for such theories (although the idea is older). Aristotle argued that in some domains, what we take to be a credible source of knowledge is the reapplying of a principle ...
... examples. But Aristotle's rhetorical analysis allows for relocating the literature-as-example idea from being only a suggestion linking aesthetics with cognition to an argumentational move justified through rhetorical theory. This is ...
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