Notes for a “nomadic” critique of King Lear: morality and sensitive reason in literature

Abstract

The article realizes a King Lear’s reading from a philosophical nomadic point of view, introducing elements that allow us to evaluate the relation between the political and poetical aspects of the work. For this, it takes the main characters of the drama as an axis for the analysis, in whose dialectical relation is demonstrated a Christian ascetic that, based on the concept of sensitive reason, brings up the categories that properly belong to the moral realm. From this analysis, the article investigates the dialectical relation that is established between such categories as the poetical-the political, good-evil, paternal morality-political morality, and shows how Shakespeare occupies it to give an  account of the nature of  human beings in all their extent.