Ancients and Shakespeare on Time
Subtitle: Some Remarks on the War of Generations
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 106
ISBN-13: 9789042038202
Subjects: Philosophy
Description: In this book, Piotr Nowak depicts a world where tradition -- devoid of gravity, "Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything" -- attempts to curb the young and new, while youth resists with all its power, vitality and characteristic insolence. The wars of generations, which Nowak explores in the works of Plato, Aristophanes and Shakespeare, pertain to the essence and meaning of time. They make up the dramatic tensions in the transgenerational dialogue between the old and the young.