期刊名称：Cultura : International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology
印刷版ISSN：1584-1057
电子版ISSN：2065-5002
出版年度：2005
卷号：4
出版社：AXIS Fundation, University “Al.I.Cuza” Iassy
摘要：The nineteenth-century poet, critic and philosopher, Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, once characterized the mind of William Shakespeare as
"oceanic". Oceans, of course, teem with myriad forms of life: is
philosophy one such form in the oceanic vastness of Shakespeare's
creative genius? If so, how do we identify philosophic elements in his
plays and assess the place they occupy? What sense does it make to
speak of "philosophical criticism" of individual plays? How does
Shakespeare incorporate epistemologies of his own time and how
dramatically appropriate are they? To what extent is Shakespeare of use
to contemporary philosophers and how does he anticipate them; and,
vice-versa, can such philosophies refine our understanding of certain
issues to which literary critics may fail to do justice? That is, can
philosophy take us beyond the purely literary examination of plot
structure, character, poetic imagery, speech rhythms, dialogues, settings,
etc. to grant us new insight into the problematical issues the plays raise?
In the time at my disposal, I am going to attempt some answers to at
least some of these questions, by dwelling briefly on The Merchant of
Venice, Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet.
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