Over-Measure in Kant, Hegel, and Shakespeare

Jennifer Ann Bates is professor of philosophy at Duquesne University, USA, and author of Hegel and Shakespeare on Moral Imagination (2010) and Hegel's Theory of Imagination (2004).

• Contents PrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1: Hegel and Shakespeare on the Measure for Measure: The Hangman’s MysteryChapter 2: Over-Measuring the World: The Principle of Quantity in Kant and Shakespeare’s Antony and CleopatraChapter 3: Principled Virtue in Antony and Cleopatra: CelerityChapter 4: Principled Virtues of Generosity and Duty, and Remarkable Over-Measure in Antony and CleopatraChapter 5: Over-Measures of Quality in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus: Tomb, Hue, Emanation, the Mark, and the Principled Virtue of PurityChapter 6: Over-Measures of Quality in Titus Andronicus: Revenge Caves and The Principled Virtue of ConfidenceChapter 7: Over-Measures of Substance in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: The Principled Virtue of LeadershipChapter 8: Over-Measures of Causality in Julius Caesar: Succession and the Soothsayer (Ambiguous Generation)Chapter 9: Over-Measures of Coexistence in Julius Caesar: Monstrosities and the Narcissism of the VoidChapter 10: Over-Measures of Modality in Kant and Julius Caesar: Possibility and the Axis of Meaning in Augurs and DreamsChapter 11: Over-Measures of Modality in Kant and Julius Caesar: Actuality in the “Refutation of Idealism” and in the Execution of the Deed; The Principled Virtue of CommitmentChapter 12: Over-Measures of Modality in Kant and Julius Caesar: Necessity and the Principled Virtue of FreedomChapter 13: Hegel’s Book of Over-Measures, The Phenomenology of Spirit: is its Method a Principled Virtue? Dialectical Necessity in Solger’s Tragic Irony vs. in Hegel’s Begriff, and Hegel’s Celebration of Shakespearean ImaginationAppendix: Further ReadingBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

With extraordinary sagacity, this book is made to work both ways, as a philosophical investigation of speculative questions of German idealism and as a hermeneutic examination of the way these questions are enacted in the experience of Shakespearean playtexts.