Shakespeare's Folly: Philosophy, Humanism, Critical Theory (Routledge Studies in Shakespeare)

This study contends that folly is of fundamental importance to the implicit philosophical vision of Shakespeare's drama. The discourse of folly's wordplay, jubilant ironies, and vertiginous paradoxes furnish Shakespeare with a way of understanding that lays bare the hypocrisies and absurdities of the serious world. Like Erasmus, More, and Montaigne before him, Shakespeare employs folly as a mode of understanding that does not arrogantly insist upon the veracity of its own claims - a fool's truth, after all, is spoken by a fool. Yet, as this study demonstrates, Shakespearean folly is not the sole preserve of professional jesters and garrulous clowns, for it is also apparent on a thematic, conceptual, and formal level in virtually all of his plays. Examining canonical histories, comedies, and tragedies, this study is the first to either contextualize Shakespearean folly within European humanist thought, or to argue that Shakespeare's philosophy of folly is part of a subterranean strand of Western philosophy, which itself reflects upon the folly of the wise. This strand runs from the philosopher-fool Socrates through to Montaigne and on to Nietzsche, but finds its most sustained expression in the Critical Theory of the mid to late twentieth-century, when the self-destructive potential latent in rationality became an historical reality. This book makes a substantial contribution to the fields of Shakespeare, Renaissance humanism, Critical Theory, and Literature and Philosophy. It illustrates, moreover, how rediscovering the philosophical potential of folly may enable us to resist the growing dominance of instrumental thought in the cultural sphere.

Literature & Fiction

Hall, Sam

History & Criticism

Routledge

Looks at how Eskimos have lived in the Arctic, describes the erosion of the Eskimo culture, and suggests ways to develop the Arctic lands responsibly

Fourth World: The Heritage of the Arctic and its Destruction

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

The Fourth World: The Heritage of the Arctic and Its Destruction

Vintage

A first-person account of a man who quit his management job in his family's business, joined a U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Sinai, and began a five-year career fighting terrorism

Counter-Terrorist

Hussman, Larry

Lewis, Felicia

Biographies & Memoirs

GRAND CENTRAL PUB.

Positive Solutions to Negative Cash Flows

Allen Group

The Ultimate Cruise Passenger's Guide - DENMARK, FAROE IS., ICELAND, GREENLAND is a fully comprehensive, richly illustrated study of each country and its cruise ports of call. The author prefaces each country with an in-depth article studying the history, people and their culture. For instance, why Denmark is a 'nearly perfect nation'... how Vikings and volcanoes have affected the Icelandic people... and why more than 3,000 Viking settlers in Greenland simply disappeared. An expert on the Arctic regions and author of 'The Fourth World: The destruction of the Arctic and its Heritage', Hall digs deep into the history of the 6,000-year Inuit migration from Siberia to Greenland and explains not only how missionaries, whalers, trappers and traders destroyed the Inuit culture, but how the Danes and Americans during and after the Second World War dragged the Inuit from the Stone Age and cast them into the Space Age. After each introductory article, Hall then explores each port of call, looks at their history and evolution before listing the top sights to see and attractions to visit, and adding their opening times and admission prices in three currencies.

The Ultimate Cruise Passenger's Guide: DENMARK, ICELAND, GREENLAND

Travel

Europe

Independently published

Counter Terrorist

History

Military

Dutton Adult

The Wolf At My Door (Pack Heat)

Romance

Paranormal

This 385-page richly illustrated book is a comprehensive guide to all the ports that cruise ships are likely to call at in Sweden, Finland, The Åland Islands, Russia, The Baltic States, Poland and Germany. The author includes in-depth introductory articles on the history, culture and people of each country and St. Petersburg. In these essays, he goes on to explain Sweden' s Affinity with Nature, How Finland lives with 'The Bear', and how the extraordinary Singing Revolution in Estonia, Latvia and Estonia was a major contributor in bringing about the collapse of the Soviet Union. Hall then introduces each port and highlights the main attractions, their location, opening times and admission prices in three currencies.

The Ultimate Cruise Passenger's Guide - The Baltic Cruise

Specialty Travel

This 2nd edition is a comprehensive, richly illustrated study of Norway that tells you everything you need to know about its history, people, culture, cruise ports and their attractions. N.B: DESPITE NEGATIVE REVIEW, THERE ARE NO PROOF-READING ISSUES IN THIS BOOK. In a series of in-depth articles, the author first describes how the topography of Norway has contributed to the character and culture of its population. He then goes on to examine the Resistance Movement during the Second World War, the hardships and lifestyle of Sami reindeer herders of Lapland and life in Svalbard, including the Russian settlements of Barentsburg and Pyramiden. Hall next uses a personal voyage on the most authentic Viking trading ship ever built as a vehicle to explore and explain the Viking expansion westwards to Iceland, Greenland and North America. Finally, he reveals how a Norwegian team created a highly successful television series about a Norwegian teenage girl who became a surrogate mother to a seal pup. The award-winning series sold to some 68 countries. Having given the reader a thorough insight into what makes the Norwegian people tick, Hall then turns his journalistic spotlight on each of the cruise ports in turn from Oslo and Stavanger in the south to Alta and Kirkenes in the far north, pointing out the main attractions at each port, when they are open and the prices of admission in three currencies.

The Ultimate Cruise Passenger's Guide - NORWAY

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