Cartesian Theaters, Shakespearean Minds
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781399556965 (ISBN)
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Most scholars of early modern English literature consider Cartesian rationalism to be a poor theoretical lens. Though René Descartes figures as one of the most important philosophers in the early modern period, and in the history of philosophy itself, he has received scorn from literary scholars of the Renaissance who have become skeptical of “heroes of subjectivity.” Cartesian Theaters, Shakespearean Minds challenges the commonplace dichotomy between Cartesian subjectivity and early modern material culture and reconsiders Descartes as a foundational figure in early modern literary studies. It corrects outdated readings by scholars that would position him as a champion of disembodied mind. Instead, Nathan Pensky argues that both Descartes and Shakespeare, as well as several of the latter’s contemporaries, draw from overlapping philosophical histories, and that the mind-body problem as evident in early modern drama clearly anticipates Cartesian thought.
Nathan Pensky is an Adjunct Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and Duquesne University. He has published work in Early Theater and Early Modern Literary Studies and in non-academic outlets, including The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Boston Globe, and many others. His interests of study include early modern literature, hermeneutics, ethics and philosophy of mind.
Acknowledgments
Series Editor’s Preface
Introduction: Exorcising the Ghost in the Machine
1. Devilish Entertainment and Divine Thoughts in Doctor Faustus
2. Mind, Intension, and Wordplay in Endymion and Love’s Labour’s Lost
3. Hal as Cartesian Anti-Hero in Shakespeare’s Henriad
4. The Phenomenology of Revenge in The Spanish Tragedy
5. Imagining Descartes in Hamlet and Othello
Coda: Narrative at the Intersection of Being and Seeming
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.3.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781399556965 / 9781399556965 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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