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expositions-135	none	Shakespeare's "Philosophy": Looking or Thinking?	2009	14	.pdf	application/pdf	4966	160	47	To these we might add problems from the so-called “continental” tradition, systematically ignored by McGinn, but which have been central to Shakespeare critics’ interrogation of the possibility of value-free knowl- edge: the historical situatedness of the observer; his or her formation by ideological and social forces; and the hermeneutic problems of match- ing the reader’s “horizon of expectation” with the “past significance” of a literary text, on the one hand, and the impossibility of fixing a context absolutely, on the other. For Nuttall, Shakespeare thinks through the embodied interaction of his characters; for McGinn, Shakespeare shapes play and character in order to express an underlying philosophical theme.	cache/expositions-135.pdf	txt/expositions-135.txt