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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... experience” will strongly suggest itself. Culturally oriented Shakespeareans will worry that this solution is conceptually artificial and politically naive. Making sense of philosophical insight as part of reading literature need not ...
... experience through a metaphor of authorship: Thou trothless and unjust, what lines are these? Am I grown old, or is thy lust grown young, Or hath my love been so obscured in thee That others need to comment on my text? Is all my love ...
... EXPERIENCE Many theories explain the ways by which literature yields knowledge. Some say that literature enables forming hypotheses, thereby creating beliefs—albeit not necessarily justified ones.2 Others argue that reading a. 1 I will ...
... experience that literature creates. The first option, appealing to aspects particular to literary language for the purpose of advancing knowledge, will fail. Oppositions that were employed in the past to articulate the distinctiveness ...
... experience is our second option. Colin Falck writes that literature operates through tapping into “preconscious moods,” thereby circumventing a more aware experience. Martha Nussbaum characterizes literary experience as one in which ...
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