Evolving Hamlet
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Evolving Hamlet

Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy and the Ethics of Natural Selection

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Evolving Hamlet

Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy and the Ethics of Natural Selection

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Using Hamlet and a number of other popular and influential seventeenth-century tragedies as case-studies, this book shows how aesthetic experience can help organize the biological functions of our brains into adaptive social networks.

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Year
2011
ISBN
9780230118386

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Preface
  8. Introduction: The Descent of Ethics
  9. 1 Faustus, Macbeth, and the Riddle of Tomorrow
  10. 2 Partial Belief in Julius Caesar and Hamlet
  11. 3 Othello and the Subject of Ocular Proof
  12. 4 The Indian Emperour and the Reason of New World Conflict
  13. 5 Cartesian Generosity and the New Shakespeare
  14. 6 King Lear and the Endurance of Tragedy
  15. 7 The Progress of Ethics
  16. Conclusion
  17. Notes
  18. Index