Please join the Affect and the Emotions Workshop
MONDAY, October 14, when
Richard Strier
Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus
Department of English, University of Chicago
presents the paper:
“Shakespearean Happiness”
MONDAY, October 14
4:30-6pm | Cobb 409
Respondent: Ben Jeffery, Social Thought
Description: The essay tries to show that Shakespeare had two somewhat different conceptions of happiness. One is the Aristotelian eudaimonistic conception, which Shakespeare understood well and to which (as with anything he touched) he gave memorable expression. The other is more distinctive, and is a conception for which, as far as I know, there is not a standard designation. It might be called (anachronistically) the Blakean or Nietzschean conception. It has nothing to do with any traditional conception of moral virtue, and can – though it need not – stand in sharp contrast with such.
The paper, to be read in advance, will be distributed to the Affect and the Emotions Workshop mailing list and is available in the post below with a password. Light refreshments will be served.
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Image: Eduard von Grützner, Falstaff. 1904.
