Philosophical Shakespeares

<p>Shakespeare continues to articulate the central problems of our intellectual inheritance. The plays of a Renaissance playwright still seem to be fundamental to our understanding and experience of modernity.<br>Key philosophical questions concerning value, meaning and justice continue to resonate in Shakespeare's work. In the course of rethinking these issues, <em>Philosophical Shakespeares</em> actively encourages the growing dissolution of boundaries between literature and philosophy. The approach throughout is interdisciplinary, and ranges from problem-centred readings of particular plays to more general elaborations of the significance of Shakespeare in relation to individual thinkers or philosophical traditions.</p> List of contributors General editor's preface Foreword 1. Philosophical Shakespeares: an introduction 2. How many children did she have? 3. On the need for a differentiated theory of (early) modern subjects 4. We were never early modern 5. Violence and philosophy: Nathaniel Merriman, A.W. Schlegel and Jack Cade 6. Reading Shakespeare with intensity: A commentary on some lines from Nietzsche's Ecce Homo 7. Shakespeare's monster of nothing Bibliography