Shakespeare Contra Nietzsche or How to Playwrite with a Hammer
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2010
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Haverford College. Department of Philosophy
Haverford College. Department of English
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The Charles Schwartz Memorial Prize in Philosophy
The Newton Prize in English Literature
The Newton Prize in English Literature
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I argue, two of the primary frameworks by which the academy currently conceives of the human subject fundamentally intertwine, as the Nietzschean thought which has dominated postmodernity conceives of itself on the most basic level as arising from and being like the tragic Shakespearean conception of humanity Bloom describes as paradigmatic for all post-Shakespeareans. Contemporary philosophy and criticism, I believe, may therefore be said to stem from the intersection of Shakespeare and Nietzsche. And so, if we wish to know our own intellectual origins in the crux of Nietzsche and Shakespeare, we would do well to heed Nietzsche’s own figuration of their relationship.