The Meaning of Shakespeare. University of Chicago, Levinas, Emmanuel, and Alphonso Lingis. Shakespeare, William, and Maynard Mack. Henry IV, Part One. New American Library, Shakespeare, William, and Peter Davison. Sleep, Romance, and Human Embodiment: Vitality from Spenser to Milton. It is not that there is my vigilance in the night; in insomnia it is the night itself that watches. In this anonymous nightwatch where I am completely exposed to being, all the thoughts which occupy my insomnia are suspended on nothing.
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They have no support. I am, one might say, the object rather than the subject of anonymous thought. To be sure, I have at least the experience of being an object, I still become aware of this anonymous vigilance; but I become aware of it in a movement in which the I is already detached from the anonymity, in which the limit of impersonal vigilance is reflected in the ebbing of a consciousness which abandons it.
Levinas 63 It is precisely because, in insomnia, objects dissipate that the subject herself dissipates along with them. Their first appearance together or otherwise begins when Falstaff wakes from one of his slumbers: Now, Hal, what time of day is it lad?
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Thou art so fat-witted with drinking of old sack, and unbuttoning thee after supper, and sleeping upon benches after noon, that thou hast forgotten to demand that truly which thou wouldest truly know. What a devil hast thou to do with the time of the day? Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-coloured taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day.
I know you all, and will awhile uphold The unyoked humor of your idleness. I speak to thee, my heart! I know thee not old man. Fall to thy prayers. How ill white hairs becomes a fool and jester. I have long dreamt of such a kind of man, So surfeit-swelled, so old, and so profane, But being awaked I do despise my dream. Sleep is associated with bare life because it answers to the logic of the inclusive exclusion.
Sleep is that to which the vertical human opposes itself and thus is excluded ; at the same time, it is a biological process that man requires to stay alive and thus to be human and so is included. However, insofar as sleep is abjected from the vertical human — and thus from epic — it is associated with what both epic and the vertical understand as a bare life lived as if one were dead. I lie, I am no counterfeit: What, then, are the teachings of the philosopher of Eastcheap?
This does not matter, because Falstaff, as Hal first tells us, has nothing to do with the time of day. That which we are, that only can we teach; Falstaff, who is free, instructs us in freedom — not a freedom in society, but from society.
Embodiment legal definition of embodiment
In his nightgown, alone after dismissing his page, Henry speaks in verse: How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep! For Levinas, consciousness appears to stand out against the there is by its ability to forget and interrupt it, by its ability to sleep. Consciousness is a mode of being, but, in taking up being, it is a hesitation in being. It thus gives itself a dimension of retreat.
However, Sullivan argues that its significance is much greater, constituting a theory of vitality that simultaneously distinguishes man from, and connects him to, other forms of life.
He contends that, in works such as Sidney's Old Arcadia, Shakespeare's Henry IV and Henry V, Spenser's Faerie Queene, Milton's Paradise Lost and Dryden's All for Love, the genres of epic and romance, whose operations are informed by Aristotle's theory, provide the raw materials for exploring different models of humanness; and that sleep is the vehicle for such exploration as it blurs distinctions among man, plant and animal. Read more Read less.
Sleep, Romance and Human Embodiment
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