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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If Macbeth is a truly transgressive drama , one that engages in an unprece- dented way with really other otherness , how does the critic go about the business of determining the exact quality of its logical , linguistic , and theatrical ...
If Macbeth is a truly transgressive drama , one that engages in an unprece- dented way with really other otherness , how does the critic go about the business of determining the exact quality of its logical , linguistic , and theatrical ...
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... to Oxford University Press for Hegel , The Phe- nomenology of Spirit , translated by A. V. Miller ; for Hegel , Logic , translated by William Wallace ; and for Samuel Johnson , Johnson on Shakespeare ; to Methuen & Co. and Routledge ...
... to Oxford University Press for Hegel , The Phe- nomenology of Spirit , translated by A. V. Miller ; for Hegel , Logic , translated by William Wallace ; and for Samuel Johnson , Johnson on Shakespeare ; to Methuen & Co. and Routledge ...
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... select certain lines of intellectual approach , that one then needs to follow these lines to their logical limits— and that one finally needs some " jolt " in order to distance oneself from the securities of one's own premises .
... select certain lines of intellectual approach , that one then needs to follow these lines to their logical limits— and that one finally needs some " jolt " in order to distance oneself from the securities of one's own premises .
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Deconstruction does not neu- tralize ideologies , bypass them and set up its own " purely academic " questions in the impersonal space of logical abstrac- tions of a merely theoretical kind . On the other hand , I do not hold the view ...
Deconstruction does not neu- tralize ideologies , bypass them and set up its own " purely academic " questions in the impersonal space of logical abstrac- tions of a merely theoretical kind . On the other hand , I do not hold the view ...
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As the problem of intellectual reversibility demonstrates ( the logical reversibility between the Happy Con- sciousness and the Unhappy Consciousness ) , Hegel's phe- nomenology A Note on the Text 13.
As the problem of intellectual reversibility demonstrates ( the logical reversibility between the Happy Con- sciousness and the Unhappy Consciousness ) , Hegel's phe- nomenology A Note on the Text 13.
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| Title | Deconstructing Macbeth: The Hyperontological View Deconstructing Macbeth: The Hyperontological View, Harald William Fawkner |
| Author | Harald William Fawkner |
| Publisher | Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1990 |
| ISBN | 0838633935, 9780838633939 |
| Length | 261 pages |
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