Unphenomenal Shakespeare

Pending Critical Quarrels

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In the aftermath of New Historicism and Cultural Materialism, the field of Shakespeare Studies has been increasingly overrun by post-theoretical, phenomenological claims. Many of the critical tendencies that hold the field today—post-humanism, speculative realism, ecocriticism, historical phenomenology, new materialism, performance studies, animal studies, affect studies—are consciously or unwittingly informed by phenomenological assumptions. This book aims at uncovering and examining these claims, not only to assess their philosophical congruency but also to determine their hermeneutic relevance when applied to Shakespeare. More specifically, Unphenomenal Shakespeare deploys resources of speculative critique to resist the moralistic and aestheticist phenomenalization of the Shakespeare playtexts across a variety of schools and scholars, a tendency best epitomized in Bruce Smith’s Phenomenal Shakespeare (2010).
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2023
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Julián Jiménez Heffernan is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Córdoba. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Bologna with a dissertation on Giordano Bruno and is currently working on a book about Henry James.
Acknowledgements

Introduction

1  The Unphenomenal “This Nothing’s More than Matter”

2 The Spectre of the Cartesian Subject

3 Misrepresentations Shakespeare and the Phenomenologists

4 What Phenomenology? Kant to Levinas

5 Spontaneous Me

6 The Harm That Good Men and Women Do

7 Affective styles

8 A Pastoral Philosophy

9 What Matters in Shakespeare?

10 Undialing the Dialectic

11 The Maladies of Abstinence No More Cakes and Ale

12 The Naturalization of Reason Who Is Afraid of Ferdinand Derrida?

13 Doing Shakespeare To the Things Themselves

14 Reading Shakespeare Is There a Text in This Play?

15 If Caliban Is a Chimpanzee and Other Posthumanist Conditions

16 The Aesthetic Ideology

17 The Aesthetic Fallacy

18 The Fallacy of Representation

19 The Fallacy of Immediacy

20 The Fallacy of Presentism

Bibliographical References

Index

The finished publication could be bought by University libraries, scholars, academics, and funded researchers: that is its primary and only market. The book’s international appeal is restricted to the English-speaking academic world. The relevant fields are English, Comparative Literature, Literary Theory, and Philosophy.
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