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A Struggle with Alterity: A Lévinasian Reading of Macbeth
Arcadia Pub Date : 2020-06-05 , DOI: 10.1515/arcadia-2020-0001
Mehrdad Bidgoli 1 , Shamsoddin Royanian 2
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Abstract In Macbeth (ca. 1606), William Shakespeare returns all the way back to his metaphysics which he had demonstrated magnificently in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (ca. 1595) and Hamlet (ca. 1600). These works represent Shakespeare’s dramaturgical treatment of Being, substance, essence, etc. One of the chief elements of these plays is supernaturality, or nothingness (non-being) in a sense interrupting Being and human activities. These elements are presented in Julius Caesar (1599) as well, a history play which has commonalities with Macbeth. Yet few of his tragedies offer a world so dipped in horror and darkness as Macbeth. Ethics might thus be a far-fetched component among these grisly sensations and in the bloody atmosphere of this tragedy, but with the help of Emmanuel Lévinas (1906–1995), traces of ethical exigency can be discerned. Approaching Macbeth through Lévinas’s philosophy, we attempt to study some ways in which ethics can be addressed and studied in this dark world. We will discuss Macbeth’s struggles with time (mostly his future) and the Other as metaphors of alterity intruding into and interrupting his totalizing conatus.

中文翻译:

与另类的斗争:对麦克白的莱文西亚式解读

摘要 在《麦克白》(约 1606 年)中,威廉·莎士比亚一路回到他在《仲夏夜之梦》(约 1595 年)和《哈姆雷特》(约 1600 年)中出色展示的形而上学。这些作品代表了莎士比亚对存在、实体、本质等的戏剧化处理。这些戏剧的主要元素之一是超自然,或在某种意义上中断存在和人类活动的虚无(非存在)。这些元素也在 Julius Caesar (1599) 中呈现,这是一部与麦克白有共同之处的历史剧。然而,在他的悲剧中,很少有像麦克白那样沉浸在恐怖和黑暗中的世界。因此,在这些可怕的感觉和这场悲剧的血腥气氛中,伦理可能是一个牵强附会的组成部分,但在 Emmanuel Lévinas(1906-1995)的帮助下,可以看出伦理紧迫性的痕迹。通过莱维纳斯的哲学接近麦克白,我们试图研究在这个黑暗世界中可以解决和研究伦理学的一些方法。我们将讨论麦克白与时间(主要是他的未来)和他者的斗争,将他者视为侵入和中断他的总体连续性的他者的隐喻。
更新日期:2020-06-05
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