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1、I.ShakespeareandtheValueofPersonalityII.ShakespeareandtheValueofLoveHAROLDBLOOMTHETANNERLECTURESONHUMANVALUESDeliveredatPrincetonUniversityNovember15and16,1995HAROLDBLOOMisSterlingProfessoroftheHumanitiesatYaleUniversityandBergProfessorofEnglishatNewYorkUniversity.HewaseducatedatCorne
2、llUniversity,CambridgeUniversity,andYaleUniversity,wherehere-ceivedhisPh.D.HealsoholdshonorarydegreesfromBostonCollege,YeshivaUniversity,andtheUniversityofBologne.ArecipientofaMacArthurFellowship,heisamemberoftheAmericanAcademyofArtsandLettersandtheAmericanPhilosophicalSociety.Amonghi
3、stwenty-threepublishedbooksareTheVisionaryCompany(1961),TheAnxietyofInfluence(1973),RuintheSacredTruths(1988),TheAmericanReligions(1992),andTheWesternCanon(1994).I.SHAKESPEAREANDTHEVALUEOFPERSONALITY1KarlMarx,whosevisionsbelongtothehistoryofChristianheresyratherthanofJewishheresy,wase
4、noughofanapocalyptictoemulateJesusincryingout:“Letthedeadburytheirdead!”EmileDurkheimfamouslyremarkedthatMarxismwasnotasocialsciencebutacryofpain.Ourcurrent,fashionableattitudestowardsliterarytradition,andtowardsShakespeareinparticular,blendMarxandMichelFoucault,yetaremostlyacryofpain
5、,whilepur-portingtobeonehistoricismoranother.Inauthenticvictimizationmayhaveitspleasures,butitspainsareunpersuasive.WalterBen-jamin,anironicallyauthenticvictimoftheNazis,persuadesus,withinhiscontext,whenheremarksthateverymonumentofcivili-zationisalsoamonumentofbarbarism.Butourcontexti
6、sverydifferent,andourcheerleadersofculturalresentmentscarcelyearntheirMarxistcriesofpain.Thegreatmonumentofourcanon,andsoofourcivilization,isShakespeare,andIhastentoinsistthatby“our”IdonotmeantheWesternworldalone.Shakespeareistheuniversalcenteroftheworldcanon:ChristianEuropeanandAmer-
7、icanwhitemalesareonlyafractionofhisaudience.Shakespeare,thecanonicalsublime,cannotbejudgedamonumentofbarbarism,notastatementImakeatalleasily,sinceIhavetoregardTheMerchantofVenice,inoneofitssalientaspects,asaverybarbaricworkindeed,whileTitusAndronicus,unless(asIsuspect)itwasasend-upofC
8、hrist
