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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... relations between philosophy and literature were reopened in the 1980s, most notably in the work of Martha Nussbaum and Stanley Cavell. Many have formulated excellent critiques of these pioneering works. Aesthetes worry that ...
... relations between effectiveness and justification that will 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 ...
... relations between philosophy and literature requires facing these familiar questions. If the above literary excerpt informs, there must be something in the lines, in the configuration of the words, in the arrangement of the images, or ...
... relation to the philosophy-literature question. 15 The distinction between particular and categorical propositions, coupled with the claim that literary examples support the former, strikes me as a more defendable position than the ...
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