LEADER 03960nam 22006735 450 001 9910823001503321 005 20230124193725.0 010 $a0-8232-6997-3 010 $a0-8232-6998-1 010 $a0-8232-6996-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823269969 035 $a(CKB)3710000000747379 035 $a(EBL)4545521 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001532198 035 $a(OCoLC)940935886 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse50534 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4545521 035 $a(DE-B1597)554961 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823269969 035 $a(OCoLC)1058964055 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000747379 100 $a20200723h20162016 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|un|u 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aShakespeare as a Way of Life $eSkeptical Practice and the Politics of Weakness /$fJames Kuzner 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cFordham University Press,$d[2016] 210 4$d©2016 215 $a1 online resource (233 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 0 $a0-8232-6994-9 311 0 $a0-8232-6993-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction: Shakespeare?s Skeptical Practice and the Politics of Weakness --$tChapter 1. Ciceronian Skepticism and the Mind- Body Problem in Lucrece --$tChapter 2. ?It stops me here?: Love and Self- Control in Othello --$tChapter 3. The Winter?s Tale: Faith in Law and the Law of Faith --$tChapter 4. Doubtful Freedom in Th e Tempest --$tChapter 5. Looking Two Ways at Once in Timon of Athens --$tEpilogue: Shakespeare as a Way of Life --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aShakespeare as a Way of Life shows how reading Shakespeare helps us to live with epistemological weakness and even to practice this weakness, to make it a way of life. In a series of close readings, Kuzner shows how Hamlet, Lucrece, Othello, The Winter?s Tale, The Tempest, and Timon of Athens, impel us to grapple with basic uncertainties: how we can be free, whether the world is abundant, whether we have met the demands of love and social life.To Kuzner, Shakespeare?s skepticism doesn?t have the enabling potential of Keats?s heroic ?negativity capability,? but neither is that skepticism the corrosive disease that necessarily issues in tragedy. While sensitive to both possibilities, Kuzner offers a way to keep negative capability negative while making skepticism livable. Rather than light the way to empowered, liberal subjectivity, Shakespeare?s works demand lasting disorientation, demand that we practice the impractical so as to reshape the frames by which we view and negotiate the world. The act of reading Shakespeare cannot yield the practical value that cognitive scientists and literary critics attribute to it. His work neither clarifies our sense of ourselves, of others, or of the world; nor heartens us about the human capacity for insight and invention; nor sharpens our ability to appreciate and adjudicate complex problems of ethics and politics. Shakespeare?s plays, rather, yield cognitive discomforts, and it is just these discomforts that make them worthwhile. 606 $aPHILOSOPHY / Epistemology$2bisacsh 610 $aCognitive Science. 610 $aFreedom. 610 $aLove. 610 $aPolitical Theology. 610 $aShakespeare. 610 $aSkepticism. 610 $aaesthetics. 610 $aethics. 610 $apolitics. 615 7$aPHILOSOPHY / Epistemology. 676 $a822.33 676 $a822.33 686 $aLIT015000$aPOL010000$aPHI004000$2bisacsh 700 $aKuzner$b James$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01679444 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823001503321 996 $aShakespeare as a Way of Life$94047675 997 $aUNINA