New PDF release: Shakespeare's Folly: Philosophy, Humanism, Critical Theory

By Sam Hall

ISBN-10: 1138655228

ISBN-13: 9781138655225

This research contends that folly is of basic significance to the implicit philosophical imaginative and prescient of Shakespeare’s drama. The discourse of folly’s wordplay, jubilant ironies, and vertiginous paradoxes provide Shakespeare with a fashion of knowing that lays naked the hypocrisies and absurdities of the intense global. Like Erasmus, extra, and Montaigne prior to him, Shakespeare employs folly as a style of knowing that doesn't arrogantly insist upon the veracity of its personal claims – a fool’s fact, finally, is spoken via a idiot. but, as this examine demonstrates, Shakespearean folly isn't the sole guard jesters and garrulous clowns, for it's also obvious on a thematic, conceptual, and formal point in nearly all of his performs. reading canonical histories, comedies, and tragedies, this research is the 1st to both contextualize Shakespearean folly inside of ecu humanist notion, or to argue that Shakespeare’s philosophy of folly is a part of a subterranean strand of Western philosophy, which itself displays upon the folly of the clever. This strand runs from the philosopher-fool Socrates via to Montaigne and directly to Nietzsche, yet unearths its so much sustained expression within the severe conception of the mid to past due twentieth-century, while the self-destructive strength latent in rationality grew to become an historic fact. This booklet makes a considerable contribution to the fields of Shakespeare, Renaissance humanism, severe concept, and Literature and Philosophy. It illustrates, furthermore, how rediscovering the philosophical strength of folly could let us to withstand the turning out to be dominance of instrumental proposal within the cultural sphere.

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