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Antiquity Forgot

Essays on Shakespeare, Bacon and Rembrandt

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Howard B. White
    Pages 1-4

  3. Politics in Shakespeare

    • Howard B. White
    Pages 5-30

  4. Macbeth and The Tyrannical Man

    • Howard B. White
    Pages 31-43

  5. Bastards and Usurpers

    • Howard B. White
    Pages 44-73

  6. Ciphers to this Great Accompt

    • Howard B. White
    Pages 74-87

  7. The English Solomon

    • Howard B. White
    Pages 88-108

  8. Bacon’s “Wisdom of the Ancients”

    • Howard B. White
    Pages 109-136

  9. Rembrandt and the Human Condition

    • Howard B. White
    Pages 137-160
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It was probably Rousseau who first thought of dreams as ennobling experiences. Anyone who has ever read Reveries du Promeneur Solitaire must be struck by the dreamlike quality of Rousseau's meditations. This dreamlike quality is still with us, and those who experience it find themselves ennobled by it. Witness Martin Luther King's famous "1 have a dream. " Dreaming and inspiration raise the artist to the top rung in the ladder ofhuman relations. That is probably the prevailing view among educated people of our time. Rousseau made that view respectable and predominant. Yet in another sense, the problem is much older. It is the problem of political philosophy and poetry, the problem of Socrates and Aristophanes, of Plato and Homer. Yet, while antiquity usually gives the crown to philosophy, since Rous­ seau, the alternative view tends to prevail. The distinction is not, however, a formal one. Sir Philip Sidney enlisted Plato on the side of poetry. The true distinction is between imagination and reason. If reason is to rule, as Aristotle points out,l the most architectonic of the sciences, that is political science, should rule. It is political philosophy which must determine the nature of the arts which will help or which will hinder the good of the city or the polity. That does not mean that a mere professor should stand in judgment of Shake­ speare, Bacon, and Rembrandt. It means that ifhe studies these three great artists, he is not over-stepping disciplinary limits.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Antiquity Forgot

  • Book Subtitle: Essays on Shakespeare, Bacon and Rembrandt

  • Authors: Howard B. White

  • Series Title: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9663-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands 1978

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-247-1971-6Published: 30 April 1978

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-009-9665-6Published: 19 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-9663-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0066-6610

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0307

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 160

  • Topics: History, general

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