This collection of essays, most of which return to or renew something of an empirical or archival approach to the issues, represents the most comprehensive analysis of Beckett's relationship to philosophy in print, how philosophical issues, conundrums, and themes play out amid n…
From the days of the first shamans, through Homer, Dante, the traditional ballads, Rumi, Blake, Emily Dickinson and Lew Welch, poetry has been rooted in metaphysics. In What Poets Used To Know: Poetics, Mythopoesis, Metaphysics, Charles Upton presents poetry both as a set of con…
"A Bloody and Barbarous God investigates the relationship between gnosticism, a system of thought that argues that the cosmos is evil and that the human spirit must strive for liberation from manifest existence, and the perennial philosophy, a study of the highest common factor …
This book looks at the esoteric philosophical influences on six of Cormac McCarthy's novels. The author offers a fresh approach, investigating the relationship between Gnosticism, a system of thought that sees the cosmos as evil and holds that the human spirit must strive for li…
"A Bloody and Barbarous God investigates the relationship between gnosticism, a system of thought that argues that the cosmos is evil and that the human spirit must strive for liberation from manifest existence, and the perennial philosophy, a study of the highest common factor …
This new approach to Shakespeare's plays suggests they can be seen as metaphysical 'experiments' conducted in the medium of drama. It engages readers with lively discussion of three 'difficult' metaphysical thinkers - Spinoza, Bergson and Whitehead - through 'The Tempest', 'King…
This title offers a fresh approach to the plays that suggests they can be seen as metaphysical 'experiments' conducted in the medium of drama. Metaphysics is usually associated with that part of the philosophical tradition which asks about 'last things', questions such as: How m…
Shakespearean metaphysics
by ProQuest (Firm), Ebook Central Academic complete, Witmore, Michael
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This new approach to Shakespeare's plays suggests they can be seen as metaphysical 'experiments' conducted in the medium of drama. It engages readers with lively discussion of three 'difficult' metaphysical thinkers - Spinoza, Bergson and Whitehead - through 'The Tempest', 'King…
This new approach to Shakespeare's plays suggests they can be seen as metaphysical 'experiments' conducted in the medium of drama. It engages readers with lively discussion of three 'difficult' metaphysical thinkers - Spinoza, Bergson and Whitehead - through 'The Tempest', 'King…
