Naslov
Cavell's Shakespeare, or the Insufficiency of Tragedy for Modernity

Autori
Jukić, Tatjana

Izvornik
Bollettino Filosofico (1593-7178) 32 (2017); 67-87

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Cavell, Shakespeare, modernity, tragedy, film, psychoanalysis

Sažetak
Stanley Cavell’s philosophical interest in Shakespeare is so consistent that Shakespeare appears to have pre-organized, for Cavell, the intellectual situation from which to launch the ideation of modernity. I discuss Cavell with a view to similar constellations in Walter Benjamin and Carl Schmitt, but careful of the fact that, unlike Schmitt or Benjamin, Cavell does not privilege Hamlet as a text to which Shakespeare appears reducible. Instead, Cavell’s Shakespeare is collective and paratactic, with the implication that tragedy, taken in isolation (even as it morphs into the mourning play), fails to capture the truth of modernity. What emerges in Cavell is a Shakespeare whose tragedy works from within a Lockean social contract with other genres – a condition crucial to Cavell’s philosophical concerns.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filozofija, Filologija

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