Can I Talk about Shakespeare?

IF 0.1 3区文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM

PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI:10.1353/phl.2023.a899677

R. Pierce

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Abstract

Abstract:Can I (and you) talk sensibly about William Shakespeare's works? Some historicists see insuperable barriers in trying to understand utterances from different times and cultures, and some skeptics see such barriers in trying to read other minds. In Ludwig Wittgenstein's famous utterance about not understanding a talking lion, is the early modern Englishman Shakespeare one of those lions? Or can a magic key see past such barriers in one of the critical systems that we are offered? I argue that the answer to both questions is no.

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我能谈谈莎士比亚吗?

摘要:我(和你)能理智地谈论威廉·莎士比亚的作品吗?一些历史决定论者认为，在试图理解来自不同时代和文化的话语时存在不可逾越的障碍，而一些怀疑论者则认为，在试图读懂别人的思想时存在这种障碍。在路德维希·维特根斯坦(Ludwig Wittgenstein)关于不理解会说话的狮子的著名言论中，早期现代英国人莎士比亚是其中之一吗?或者一把神奇的钥匙能在我们所处的关键系统中看穿这些障碍吗?我认为这两个问题的答案都是否定的。

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