Plotting Against a Lie
| A reading of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People Í bókinni Plotting Against a Lie ræðir höfundurinn, Róbert H. Haraldsson, um heimspekilegar hugmyndir í leikverkum Henriks Ibsen og ber þær m.a. saman við hugmyndir Friedrichs Nietzsche. Sérstök áhersla er lögð á nákvæman lestur á leikritinu Þjóðníðingur. An Ememy of the People is usually not ranked among Ibsen’s best works. Its leading character. Dr. Stockmann, is ofen viewed as a mere mouthpiece for Ibsen, a hopeless idealist or a truth fanatic. The play has also been criticized for being too straightforward and psychologically shallow, a humorous interlude between Ghosts and The Wild Duck. In Plotting Against a Lie, Róbert H. Haraldsson reviews and rejects these claims and argues that although Dr. Stockmann was not Ibsen’s mouthpiece he most certainly identified with the doctor’s plight as well as his conception of truth and human nature. In this detailed and convincing study, Haraldsson exemplifies how we must approach Ibsen not only as a playwright but also as a philosopher. Róbert H. Haraldsson is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Iceland, Reykjavik. | |||||||
Útgáfuár:
2004
Blaðsíðufjöldi:
189
ISBN:
9979-54-594-1
Verð:
ISK 2690 - Paperback 
