Hamlet and the rethinking of man /
Levy, Eric P.
Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
c2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-245) and index.
"What is a man" : Hamlet and the problematics of man -- "In our circumstance and course of thought" : the problematics of conceptual scheme -- "What should we do?" : the predicament of practical reason in Hamlet -- Universal vs. particular : Hamlet and the madness in reason -- "Defeated joy" : melancholy and eudaemonia in Hamlet -- "Things standing thus unknown" : the epistemology of ignorance in Hamlet -- The problematic relation between reason and emotion in Hamlet -- "The time is out of joint": the resetting of time in Hamlet -- "Would it were not so": hypothetical alternatives in Hamlet -- "Who's there?": problematizing the concept of a person in Hamlet -- "Nor th'exterior nor the inward man" : the problematics of personal identity in Hamlet -- Conclusion: The mind of man in Hamlet.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.