“To mutiny against this servitude”: The Sophisticated Democracy of As You Like It
With philosophers from the Sophists and Plato, through La Boétie and Montaigne, to Jacques Derrida and Chantal Mouffe as its main context, this paper examines a number of political-philosophical aspects of Shakespeare’s As You Like It: its representation of tyrants; the politics of its pastoral mode...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:angles_665 https://doi.org/10.4000/angles.665 urn:doi:10.4000/angles.665 en https://journals.openedition.org/angles/665 2020-07-16T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/9mys https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ “To mutiny against this servitude”: The Sophisticated Democracy of As You Like It Angles Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2274-2042 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/angles Cocoual, Ifig littérature rhétorique sophistes démocratie philosophie Shakespeare William Comme il vous plaira literature sophists democracy rhetoric philosophy Shakespeare William As You Like It With philosophers from the Sophists and Plato, through La Boétie and Montaigne, to Jacques Derrida and Chantal Mouffe as its main context, this paper examines a number of political-philosophical aspects of Shakespeare’s As You Like It: its representation of tyrants; the politics of its pastoral mode; its fool’s sophistic rhetoric; and its political animal of a melancholiac, whose exit in the last scene problematizes the apparently conservative restoration. In light of this attempt to think not just about the play but with the play, and to trace the subtleties of its literary thinking or its thinking as literature, it appears that what As You Like It has in common with sophistic practice and democratic theory enables it to look beyond its immediate historical context to a future that could extend beyond our present, and give us food for democratic thought. Avec pour contexte principal des philosophes, des Sophistes et Platon à Jacques Derrida et Chantal Mouffe, en passant par La Boétie et Montaigne, cet article étudie certains aspects de la philosophie politique de Comme il vous plaira de Shakespeare : sa représentation de la tyrannie, les aspects politiques de son mode pastoral, la rhétorique sophistique de son bouffon, et son mélancolique animal politique Jaques, dont la sortie lors de la dernière scène problématise une restauration en apparence conservatrice. À la lumière de cette réflexion sur la pièce, mais aussi avec elle, qui tente de suivre les lignes subtiles de sa pensée littéraire, ou de son penser en tant que littérature, ce que Comme il vous plaira semble avoir en commun avec la pratique sophistique et la théorie démocratique lui permet de porter le regard au-delà de son contexte historique immédiat vers un avenir qui pourrait dépasser notre présent, et donner matière à réflexion démocratique. |
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With philosophers from the Sophists and Plato, through La Boétie and Montaigne, to Jacques Derrida and Chantal Mouffe as its main context, this paper examines a number of political-philosophical aspects of Shakespeare’s As You Like It: its representation of tyrants; the politics of its pastoral mode; its fool’s sophistic rhetoric; and its political animal of a melancholiac, whose exit in the last scene problematizes the apparently conservative restoration. In light of this attempt to think not just about the play but with the play, and to trace the subtleties of its literary thinking or its thinking as literature, it appears that what As You Like It has in common with sophistic practice and democratic theory enables it to look beyond its immediate historical context to a future that could extend beyond our present, and give us food for democratic thought. |
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