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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... involving experience of the literary work.7 This rather underrated objection is also fatal to other suggestions as. 2 For variations of this idea, see Beardsley (1958, pp. 429–30), Hospers (1960, p. 45), Mew (1973), McCormick (1983) ...
... involve ourselves with the imaginative realm (literature).11 Empathic beliefs are another popular suggestion: literary reading experiences involve knowledge of what it will be like to “live through” the situation portrayed. Shared by ...
... involves accepting means of argumentation that do not conclusively demonstrate a claim, but rather make it plausible, by supporting it to a certain degree. The connections surveyed above, which link the literary context and the beliefs ...
... involves the contribution of the suggestive capacities of literature.21 “Literary argumentation” is not merely legitimate nonvalid reasoning but, rather, reasoning conducted in a state of mind—which reading literature itself creates—in ...
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