Hamlet and the rethinking of man
By: Eric P. Levy.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Madison [N.J.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780838641392
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-245) and index.
Table of contents: title: "What is a man" : Hamlet and the problematics of man; title: "In our circumstance and course of thought" : the problematics of conceptual scheme; title: "What should we do?" : the predicament of practical reason in Hamlet; title: Universal vs. particular : Hamlet and the madness in reason; title: "Defeated joy" : melancholy and eudaemonia in Hamlet; title: "Things standing thus unknown" : the epistemology of ignorance in Hamlet; title: The problematic relation between reason and emotion in Hamlet; title: "The time is out of joint": the resetting of time in Hamlet; title: "Would it were not so": hypothetical alternatives in Hamlet; title: "Who's there?": problematizing the concept of a person in Hamlet; title: "Nor th'exterior nor the inward man" : the problematics of personal identity in Hamlet; title: Conclusion: The mind of man in Hamlet.