Shakespeare As a Way of Life by James Kuzner - 9780823269945

Shakespeare As a Way of LifeSkeptical Practice and the Politics of Weakness\nAuthor(s): James Kuzner\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9780823269945, 978-0823269945\nSynopsis\nShakespeare as a Way of Lifeshows how reading Shakespeare helps us to live with epistemological weakness and even to practice this weakness, to make it a way of life. In a series of close readings,Kuzner shows how Hamlet,Lucrece,Othello,The Winter's Tale,The Tempest, andTimon of Athens, impel us to grapple with basic uncertainties: how we can be free, whether the world is abundant, whether we have met the demands of love and social life.\n To Kuzner, Shakespeare's skepticism doesn't have the enabling potential of Keats's heroic \""negativity capability,\"" but neither is that skepticism the corrosive disease that necessarily issues in tragedy. While sensitive to both possibilities, Kuzner offers a way to keep negative capability neg.