Volume 8, Issue 19, Fall 2013
John F. DeCarlo
Pages 22-32
DOI: 10.5840/jphilnepal20138194
Introduction
Busting the Hermeneutical Ghosts in the Hamlet Machine
Busting the Hermenuetical Ghosts: Steering clear of pre-modern, Romantic, Freudian, and post-modern readings, DeCarlo asserts how Shakespeare's Hamlet text foreshadows the modern philosophical thought of Descartes, Kant, and Heidegger, particularly in regard to the intellectual issues of thought and doubt, time and action, and being and death.