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Passion (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard, with Joshua Fox)

Minds Almost Meeting

CHAPTER

Macbeth: A Crack Doesn't Account of Ambition?

Nietzsche has this kind of revisionary interpretation of Macbeth right where he does want to say that in this case, although we're inclined generally to think that this is a work where Shakespeare's condemning ambition. Most people who count as literary critics in our society say high school teachers teaching Macbeth end up presenting it as a critique of ambition not a celebration of ambition. But I mean there's a real question of whether this is a crack doesn't account for Macbeth and Nietzsche could be completely wrong about the play.

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