Shakespeare's Hamlet : philosophical perspectives / edited by Tzachi Zamir.

This book assembles a team of leading literary scholars and philosophers to probe philosophical questions that assert themselves in Shakespeare's Hamlet, including issues about subjectivity, knowledge, sex, grief, and self-theatricalization.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Oxford studies in philosophy and literature.
Other Authors: Zamir, Tzachi, 1967- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Series:Oxford studies in philosophy and literature.
Subjects:
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616. > Hamlet.
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Philosophy.
Hamlet > (Legendary character)
Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616.
Hamlet (Shakespeare, William)
Literature > Philosophy.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:xv, 275 pages ; 21 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction / Tzachi Zamir
  • On (not) making oneself known / John Gibson
  • Staging wisdom through Hamlet / Paul Woodruff
  • Philosophical sex / David Hillman
  • Self-uncertainty as self-realization / Paul A. Kottman
  • Hamlet's "now" of inward being / Sanford Budick
  • To thine own selves be true-ish: Shakespeare's Hamlet as formal model / Joshua Landy
  • "Unpacking the heart": why it is impossible to say "I love you" in Hamlet's Elsinore / David Schalkwyk
  • Hamlet's ethics / Sarah Beckwith
  • Interpreting Hamlet: the early German reception / Kristin Gjesdal.