Deconstructing Macbeth: The Hyperontological ViewMacbeth is discussed in relation to Derrida's notion of the metaphysics of presence. Fawkner argues that the quest for metaphysical certitude in Macbeth is related to the hero's transformation from a heroic to a post-heroic status. |
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... mind is radically different from the one that Kant came to institutionalize for the modern mind when he declared that an " aesthetic idea " stretched beyond the ken of the conceptual mind.84 Thought and air coimplicated one another in ...
... mind is radically different from the one that Kant came to institutionalize for the modern mind when he declared that an " aesthetic idea " stretched beyond the ken of the conceptual mind.84 Thought and air coimplicated one another in ...
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... mind that is unprece- dented . Tragic paralysis , in Macbeth , is not a merely passive event ; on the contrary , it is highly active . Tragic action , while being interiorized so as to mostly take place inside the mind , does not ...
... mind that is unprece- dented . Tragic paralysis , in Macbeth , is not a merely passive event ; on the contrary , it is highly active . Tragic action , while being interiorized so as to mostly take place inside the mind , does not ...
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... mind utterly forbids such thinking . But when Macbeth has come to the consolidation of the idea that “ murder " is a cognitive circuit in his mind , no more than a self - determined nothingness , Lady Macbeth interrupts this line of ...
... mind utterly forbids such thinking . But when Macbeth has come to the consolidation of the idea that “ murder " is a cognitive circuit in his mind , no more than a self - determined nothingness , Lady Macbeth interrupts this line of ...
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