Othello and the problem of knowledge reading Shakespeare through Wittgenstein / Richard Gaskin.
| Author/creator | Gaskin, Richard, 1960- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2023. |
| Description | vii, 140 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Reading Shakespeare through Wittgenstein |
| Series | Routledge research in aesthetics |
| Contents | Shakespeare, Descartes, and scepticism -- Mind, communication, and deception -- Deception, soliloquy, and knowledge -- Epistemological models of the tragedy (I) : lost of knowledge -- Context, scepticism, and the philosophy room -- Epistemological models of the tragedy (II) : loss of certainty -- Certainty, hinges, and the counterfactual. |
| Abstract | "This book analyses the epistemological problems that Shakespeare explores in Othello. In particular, it uses the methods of analytic philosophy, especially the work of the later Wittgenstein, to characterize these problems and the play. Shakespeare's Othello is often thought to connect with traditional sceptical problems, and in particular with the problem of other minds. In this book, Richard Gaskin argues that the play connects in interesting ways with traditional epistemological concerns. Shakespeare presupposes a generally Wittgensteinian model of mind as revealed in behaviour, and communication as necessarily successful in general. Gaskin examines different epistemological models of the tragedy, and argues that it is useful to apply materials from Wittgenstein's On Certainty to the analysis of Othello's loss of confidence in Desdemona's fidelity: Othello treats Desdemona's fidelity as a 'hinge certainty', something that is so fundamental to the language-game that abandoning it results-so Wittgenstein predicts-in chaos and madness. The tragedy arises, Gaskin suggests, from treating the wrong kind of thing as a hinge certainty. Othello and the Problem of Knowledge will appeal to scholars and advanced students interested in aesthetics, epistemology, philosophy of literature, Shakespeare, and Wittgenstein"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-137) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022044981 |
| ISBN | 9781032424934 (hbk) |
| ISBN | 9781032424941 (pbk) |
| ISBN | (ebk) |
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