Deadly Thought: Hamlet and the Human SoulLexington Books, 2001 - 405 páginas 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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... mind . In his famous encomium on man , Hamlet describes the world as a splendidly ordered cosmos with man , " the beauty of the world " ( 2.2.307 ) , at its center . In both man and the cosmos , there is a fun- damental harmony between ...
... mind . In his famous encomium on man , Hamlet describes the world as a splendidly ordered cosmos with man , " the beauty of the world " ( 2.2.307 ) , at its center . In both man and the cosmos , there is a fun- damental harmony between ...
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... mind and body , thinking and life . Life — the power to move and to grow — is said to be " entirely different in kind from the mind " and " nothing but a certain arrangement of the parts of the body " ( Des- cartes , Letter to Regius ...
... mind and body , thinking and life . Life — the power to move and to grow — is said to be " entirely different in kind from the mind " and " nothing but a certain arrangement of the parts of the body " ( Des- cartes , Letter to Regius ...
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... mind ( " wits " ) can be as " mortal " as an old man's " life " ( 4.5.159-60 ) . Because it is the single source of thinking and of life , the soul makes man a rational animal . By giving him life , it makes him sim- ilar to all other ...
... mind ( " wits " ) can be as " mortal " as an old man's " life " ( 4.5.159-60 ) . Because it is the single source of thinking and of life , the soul makes man a rational animal . By giving him life , it makes him sim- ilar to all other ...
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... mind . The soul's double as- pects become one . The power to think and hence to imitate sub- sumes the power to move and hence to act . Seeking refuge from the flux of fortune , Hamlet rejects action in the name of what lies within and ...
... mind . The soul's double as- pects become one . The power to think and hence to imitate sub- sumes the power to move and hence to act . Seeking refuge from the flux of fortune , Hamlet rejects action in the name of what lies within and ...
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... mind's eye " ( 1.1.115 ; 1.2.185 ) , 27 human beings naturally see double . We see what is before us , and we see what it means . With our eyes we see what is present ; with our minds we can understand what it means . The human ability ...
... mind's eye " ( 1.1.115 ; 1.2.185 ) , 27 human beings naturally see double . We see what is before us , and we see what it means . With our eyes we see what is present ; with our minds we can understand what it means . The human ability ...
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