The heart does not know:
a Cavellian reading of Shakespeare’s Sonnets
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4013/con.2023.192.06Keywords:
Cavell. Skepticism. Acknowledgement. Shakespeare.Abstract
While many authors have interpreted skepticism as a genuine philosophical and scientific challenge, such as Descartes, Stanley Cavell understands it as an existential problem with ethical consequences. Doubting the world or the existence of other minds would not be a purely philosophical thesis, but would involve a position on our life. Such an interpretation is based on how Cavell reads modern philosophy and its rupture with previous models of thinking. Expanding on this diagnosis, Cavell sees in Shakespeare a manifestation of the limits of knowledge and the moral problems that we enter when dealing with skepticism. While such an analysis took place mainly in the Bard's plays, the present text tries to do so in his Sonnets.
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