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19th-century European Philosophy
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Aristotle
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Carl Schmitt
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Emmanuel Levinas
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Hannah Arendt
Ibn Sina
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Lacan
Jean-Luc Marion
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Michel Foucault
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Shakespeare
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Soren Kierkegaard
Sren Kierkegaard
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  • ISBN 9780748695591
  • Weight: 491g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 10 Sep 2014
  • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Essays by leading authors on Shakespeare drawing on contemporary and early continental philosophy This collection of 15 essays by celebrated authors in Shakespeare studies and in continental philosophy develops different aspects of the interface between continental thinking and Shakespeare's plays. The authors draw from current continental philosophy (e.g. Lacan, Foucault, Derrida) as well as from the 19th century continental tradition (e.g. Hegel, Kierkegaard) and from the early roots of continental tradition (e.g. Aristotle, Ibn Sina). The chapters address the span of the tragedies, comedies and history plays in the light of thinkers as diverse as Aristotle, Ibn Sina and Jean-Luc Marion, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Schmitt, Arendt, Lacan, Levinas, Foucault and Derrida. Key Features: The blend of new work (10 unpublished essays) and classic position papers (5 reprints) provides a thorough overview of Shakespeare and continental thoughtSheds new light on Shakespeare and on continental philosophyAuthors in the collection are leaders in each discipline in the US and UK / Europe and include: Edward S. Casey, Howard Caygill, Paul A Kottman, Julia Reinhard Lupton, Christopher Norris, Nicholas Royle, Catherine Belsey.
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Jennifer Bates is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University. She specialises in 19th-Century German Philosophy with an emphasis on Hegel. She is the author of two books: Hegel's Theory of Imagination (SUNY, 2004) and Hegel and Shakespeare on Moral Imagination (SUNY, 2010). Richard Wilson is Sir Peter Hall Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Kingston University, London, and the author of Free Will: Art and power on Shakespeare’s stage; Shakespeare in French Theory: King of Shadows; Secret Shakespeare: Essays on theatre, religion and resistance; and Will Power: Studies in Shakespearean authority. He was described by the critic A.D, Nuttall as ‘perhaps the most brilliant of the Shakespearean historicists’.