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The Tragic Imagination in Shakespeare and Emerson

Autor Andy Amato
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 apr 2024
What is the "tragic imagination"? And what role does it play in the works of William Shakespeare and Ralph Waldo Emerson? Explaining the tragic imagination as a creative faculty employed to answer the perennial Riddle of the Sphinx - a theory of the world that advances human freedom and dignity in the face of historical injustice, cruelty and violence - Andy Amato seeks to recover and rehabilitate this concept by revealing its significance to both key works of philosophy and literature and our contemporary world. This book begins with a close and careful reading of Emerson's first major work, Nature, in conversation with nineteenth and 20thcentury continental philosophy, critical theory and post-structuralism. Uncovering neglected elements of Emerson's philosophy, beyond his reputation as the philosopher of 'cheer', this book explores how Emersonian transcendentalism affirms rather than denies the tragic sense of life - "tragic idealism" - and makes a substantial contribution to philosophy's perpetual endeavour to solve the Riddle. In the second part of the book, Amato then employs Emerson's theoretical lens to interpret Shakespeare's tragedy, King Lear. In doing so, he innovatively reframes the central themes of suffering, vision, nature, nothing, foolishness and silence toward achieving liberation.By pairing these two giants of literature and philosophy, The Tragic Imagination in Shakespeare and Emerson not only offers fresh interpretations of Nature and King Lear, but also makes the case for the renewed deployment of tragic imagination, in creative redress, to our current social-political situation.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350373570
ISBN-10: 1350373575
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Despite being known as the philosopher of cheer, Amato highlights underexplored aspects of Emerson's philosophy, including especially his sense of the tragic

Notă biografică

Andy Amato is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Dallas, USA. He is author of The Ethical Imagination in Shakespeare and Heidegger (Bloomsbury, 2019).

Cuprins

Preface 1. A Silent Fool2. The Riddle is an Elegy 3. The Perpetual Messiah4. Wiles of Innocence5. Conclusion: A Fool Speaks BibliographyIndex