Disowning Knowledge: In Seven Plays of Shakespeare

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Cambridge University Press, 31. mars 2003 - 250 sider
Reissued with a new preface and a new essay on Macbeth, King Lear, Othello, Coriolanius, Hamlet and The Winter's Tale, this famous collection of essays on Shakespeare's tragedies considers the plays as responses to the crisis of knowledge and the emergence of modern skepticism.

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Introduction
1
The Avoidance of Love A Reading of King Lear
39
Othello and the Stake of the Other
125
Coriolanus and Interpretations of Politics
143
Hamlets Burden of Proof
179
Recounting Gains Showing Losses Reading The Winters Tale
193
Macbeth Appalled
223
Index of Names and Titles
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Stanley Cavell was born Stanley Louis Goldstein in Atlanta, Georgia on September 1, 1926. He received a degree in music from the University of California, Berkeley and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University. From 1953 to 1956, he was a junior fellow in Harvard's Society of Fellows. He then taught for six years at the University of California, Berkeley. He returned to Harvard to teach in 1963, becoming professor emeritus in 1997. His first book, Must We Mean What We Say?, was published in 1969. His other books included The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy; Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage; and Themes Out of School: Effects and Causes. He died from heart failure on June 19, 2018 at the age of 91.

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