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David Hershinow - Shakespeare and the Truth-Teller, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Shakespeare and the Truth-Teller

Confronting the Cynic Ideal

Av David Hershinow

Del i serien Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy

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Highlighting the necessity of literary thinking to political philosophy, this book explores Shakespeare's responses to sixteenth-century debates over the revolutionary potential of Cynic critical activity debates that persist in later centuries and inform major developments in Western intellectual history. Analysing cynic characterisations of Lear's Fool, Hamlet and Timon of Athens, Hershinow presents new ways of thinking about modernity's engagement with classical models and literature's engagement with politics.
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David Hershinow is Director of the Writing Center at the City University of New York Graduate Center.

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Honest counselor and bitter fool, fearless speaker of truth to power and tub-dwelling public masturbator, the Cynic philosopher Diogenes enlivens some of Shakespeare’s most compelling plays, including King Lear, As You Like It and Twelfth Night. In this timely and fascinating study, David Hershinow traces the Cynic challenge to power and conformity backwards to Shakespeare’s sources in ancient philosophy and forwards to Hegel and Foucault, discovering in the Cynic stance the enduring allure of a criticism capable of changing the world through the sheer audacity of matching blistering words to outrageous deeds.

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