Deadly Thought: Hamlet and the Human SoulLexington Books, 17 ian. 2001 - 416 pagini The human soul is for pre-modern philosophers the cause of both thinking and life. This double aspect of the soul, which makes man a rational animal, expresses itself above all in human action. Deadly Thought: 'Hamlet' and the Human Soul traces Hamlet's famous inability to act to his inability to hold together these twin aspects of the soul. Combining careful attention to detail and interpretive breadth, noted scholar Jan H. Blits deftly illustrates how Hamlet collapses life into thought, and moral action into stage acting, and ultimately comes to see his own life as a stage play. Hamlet, the book demonstrates, epitomizes the intellectualism of the Renaissance and the modern age it began, and so becomes tragedy's first self-conscious protagonist, signaling the end of ancient tragedy. Erudite, innovative, and lively, Deadly Thought is a ground-breaking contribution that will appeal to Shakespeare scholars, political theorists, historians of philosophy, literary theorists and anyone interested in a truly fresh interpretation of this classic work. |
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... Stoicism places happiness in virtue and virtue in what a man himself can control . While no one can control the vicissitudes of fortune , a man can control his disposition toward their effects . So long as nothing external breaks into ...
... Stoicism places happiness in virtue and virtue in what a man himself can control . While no one can control the vicissitudes of fortune , a man can control his disposition toward their effects . So long as nothing external breaks into ...
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... Stoicism between out- ward fortunes and inward detachment from the effects of those fortunes . Stoicism places happiness in virtue and virtue in what a man himself can control . While a man cannot control the vicissi- tudes of fortune ...
... Stoicism between out- ward fortunes and inward detachment from the effects of those fortunes . Stoicism places happiness in virtue and virtue in what a man himself can control . While a man cannot control the vicissi- tudes of fortune ...
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... Stoicism is the Rome of Caesar ( " the mighti- est Julius " ) and his first - century successors , including , notably , Claudius as well as Nero ( 3.2.385 ) . It is an age of universalism on the one hand and absolute monarchy on the ...
... Stoicism is the Rome of Caesar ( " the mighti- est Julius " ) and his first - century successors , including , notably , Claudius as well as Nero ( 3.2.385 ) . It is an age of universalism on the one hand and absolute monarchy on the ...
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... Stoicism . It reflects Stoic de- tachment . Fate gives us our duties in life , which we must perform : " this drama of human life , wherein we are assigned the parts which we are to play , " Seneca writes , using a common Stoic meta ...
... Stoicism . It reflects Stoic de- tachment . Fate gives us our duties in life , which we must perform : " this drama of human life , wherein we are assigned the parts which we are to play , " Seneca writes , using a common Stoic meta ...
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... Stoicism teaches materialism . Sto- icism holds that everything that is , including God , the soul , and even virtue and the good , is a body.26 That body , however , is a liv- ing , intelligent body . In keeping with the classical ...
... Stoicism teaches materialism . Sto- icism holds that everything that is , including God , the soul , and even virtue and the good , is a body.26 That body , however , is a liv- ing , intelligent body . In keeping with the classical ...
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