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Doubt and Skepticism in Antiquity and the Renaissance.
An interdisciplinary study of the forms and uses of uncertainty in important works of literature and philosophy in antiquity and the Renaissance.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Doubt and Skepticism in Antiquity and the Renaissance; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE: "FAREWELL THE TRANQUIL MIND": Tragic Doubt in Homer's Iliad, Sophocles' Philoctetes, and Shakespeare's Othello; 1: Achilles' Doubt and Heroism-at-One-Remove in Homer's Iliad; DOUBT IN CONTEXT; DECISION MAKING AND THE INTERNAL LIFE IN THE ILIAD; SHAME, HONOR, AND CONFORMITY TO A HABITUS; THE HABITUS CONCEPTUALIZED; UNMASKING DOXA AND SPEAKING AS A FOREIGNER; ALIENATION AND THE PULSE OF TRAGIC DOUBT; ACHILLES' SHIELD AND THE EPIC AS SELF-CRITIQUE.
- PRIAM'S VISIT AND THE EXTENUATION OF DOUBT2: Moral Doubt and the Claims of Pity in Sophocles' Philoctetes; PHILOCTETES AND THE ACHILLEAN MOLD; PSYCHOMACHIA AND STRAYING FROM "NATURE"; COMIC MATRIX / TRAGIC ACTION; ERROR AND THE SHADOW OF INTELLIGENCE; DOUBT, DOUBLE TELEOLOGY, AND THE INCOMMENSURABLE; 3: "Do As If for Surety": Doubt and Delusions of Certainty in Shakespeare's Othello; WHAT MAKES A MOOR VENETIAN; NOT IN BEING SPLIT BUT ONE; NOT IN THE EQUIVOCAL BUT THE ABSOLUTE; NOT DOUBT BUT CERTITUDE; ANTIQUE TOKENS AND NUMINOUS OBJECTS.
- PART TWO: COMIC SKEPTICISM AND POLYTROPIC STRATEGIES IN HOMER'S ODYSSEY, ARISTOPHANES' WOMEN OF THE RISTOPHANES' WOMEN OF THE THESMOPHORIA, AND SHAKESPEARE'S AS YOU LIKE IT4: Wandering Odysseus, Pyrrhonist Penelope, and the Return from Alienation; COMIC SKEPTICISM AND TRAGIC DOUBT; PYRRHONIST TERMINOLOGY AND SKEPTICAL DYNAMICS IN THE ODYSSEY; ASSERTION, COUNTER-ASSERTION, AND SUSPENSION OF BELIEF; PENELOPE: WHILE HER MIND INTENDS OTHER THINGS; WEAVING AND UNWEAVING: AN ENACTMENT OF DOUBT; LYING TALES AND WITHHOLDING INFORMATION; WHAT PENELOPE KNOWS; SKEPTICISM, SIGNS, AND TRAGEDY AVERTED.
- 5: Skeptical Inversions of Gender and Genre in Aristophanes' Women of the Thesmophoria and Shakespeare's As You Like ItWOMEN OF THE THESMOPHORIA: SKEPTICISM, MULTIPLES, AND UNDIFFERENTIATED HEAPS; AS YOU LIKE IT: SKEPTICISM, MULTIPLES, AND PERSPECTIVISM; SKEPTICISM AND METATHEATRICALITY IN THE WOMEN OF THE THESMOPHORIA; "GO APART AND THOU SHALT HEAR"; SEXUAL MIMESIS AND THE AMBIGUITIES OF ANDROGYNY; DOUBLET AND HOSE IN HER DISPOSITION; BOMBAX AND BOMBALOBOMBAX: COMIC QUOTATION AND HYBRID CONSTRUCTION; TRAGICAL-COMICAL-HISTORICAL-PASTORAL; TO WHAT DOES IT TEND?
- PART THREE: SKEPTICISM, POLITICS, AND RHETORIC IN THE WORKS OF CICERO, MACHIAVELLI, AND MONTAIGNE6: Skeptical Constructions of Identity in Roman and Renaissance Humanism: The Useful, the Sublime, and the Primitivist; ON APPROACHING A SKEPTICAL POLITICS; "HUMAN NATURE" AND POLITICAL DOGMA IN CICERO, MACHIAVELLI, AND MONTAIGNE; MANIFESTATIONS OF POLITICAL SKEPTICISM (1): THE HONESTUM AND THE UTILE; MANIFESTATIONS OF POLITICAL SKEPTICISM (2): SUBLIMITY AND PRIMITIVISM; MANIFESTATIONS OF SKEPTICISM (3): RHETORICAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF CHARACTER AND PERSONA THEORY.