Deadly Thought: Hamlet and the Human Soul - Paperback

by Jan H. Blits (Author)

The human soul is for pre-modern philosophers the cause of both thinking and life. This double aspect of the soul, which makes man a rational animal, expresses itself above all in human action. Deadly Thought: "Hamlet" and the Human Soul traces Hamlet's famous inability to act to his inability to hold together these twin aspects of the soul.

Author Biography

Jan H. Blits is Professor, Honors Faculty, at the University of Delaware. He is the author of The Insufficiency of Virtue: "Macbeth" and the Natural Order (1996), and The End of the Ancient Republic: Essays on "Julius Caesar"(1993).