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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... thoughts. Finally, her comments on the entire manuscript have substantially transformed it at a crucial stage. Chapters in this book have been published in previous forms in various journals. An earlier version of chapter one appeared ...
... thought in general will also be played down. I will sometimes relate ideas to traditions of thought that may have reached Shakespeare, but I shall do so only to dispel a sense of anachronism, a suspicion that particular thoughts in such ...
... thought, which is also disturbingly out of control. Beyond ownership or love, figuring cuckoldry in terms of a commented text imports texts into the world of erotic ownership. The alarming perception of one's text being modified by ...
... thoughts, anxieties, and sentiments triggered by weighty philosophical issues. But this cannot mean that the move to epistemology is itself wrong, unimportant, or forms an evasion. 2 For variations of this idea, see Beardsley (1958, pp ...
... thought-experiment5 in which conceptual insights are gained through engaging with the rich and complex contexts of ... thought-experiments, or a delineation of the possible, not that it needs literature. In order to convince philosophers ...
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