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Shakespeare and the truth-teller : confronting the cynic ideal / David Hershinow

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Hershinow, David
Published
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
Copyright Date
©2019
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 251 pages).
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Contents
Introduction -- Part I: Our cynic legacy -- Cynicism and the courage of truth -- The realist turn: parrhêsia, character and the limits of didacticism -- Part II: Shakespeare's cynics -- Shakespeare's bitter fool: the politics and aesthetics of free speech -- Cynicism, melancholy and Hamlet's memento moriae -- Cash is king: Timon, Diogenes and the search for sovereign freedom -- Coda -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary
Highlighting the necessity of literary thinking to political philosophy, this book explores Shakespeare's responses to sixteenth-century debates over the revolutionary potential of Cynic critical activity.
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ISBN
9781474439596 (electronic bk.)
1474439594 (electronic bk.)
1474439578
9781474439572
9781474439602 (epub)
1474439608
9781474439602
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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