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Agnes Heller is Hannah Arendt Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York.
Part 1 The Time is Out of Joint
Chapter 2 1. What is Nature? What is Natural?
Part 2 No Man or Woman Can Set Time Right
Chapter 3 2. Who Am I? Dressing Up, Stripping Naked
Chapter 4 3. Acting, Playing, Pretending, Disguising
Chapter 5 4. Absolute Strangers
Chapter 6 5. Judgment of Human Character: To Betray and To Be Betrayed
Chapter 7 6. Love, Sex, Subversion: Political Drama, Family Drama
Chapter 8 7. The Sphinx Called Time
Chapter 9 8. Virtues and Vices; Guilt, Good, and Evil
Chapter 11 A. The History Plays
Chapter 12 1. Richard II
Chapter 13 2. 1, 2, and 3 Henry IV
Chapter 14 3. The Tragedy of Richard III
Chapter 15 B. Three Roman Plays
Chapter 16 1. Corialanus
Chapter 17 2. Julius Caesar
Chapter 18 3. Antony and Cleopatra
Shakespeare, who is truly our contemporary, provides the type of genuine insight and subtle understanding of history and politics that one rarely finds in more discursive treatises. Heller's fresh, sensitive readings are always thought-provoking. She effectively shows the richness and fertility of Shakespeare's dramas for thinking about the most intractable political and historical questions.
— Richard J. Bernstein, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin