TransformationsEssay Preview: TransformationsReport this essayTransformations — “How has the composer of the contemporary text used the earlier text to say something new?”In effect, it is the changing ideas and values presented in Tom Stoppard’s transformation of Shakespeare’s вЂ?Hamlet’ into вЂ?Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead’, which allows the composer to convey the idea of man’s lack of purpose and identity in a modern society that holds no absolutes. The contrast between the highly structured context of the Elizabethan era and the undefined secularity of the mid 20th Century is the foundation on which Stoppard expresses his nihilistic attitude towards society’s gradual degradation.
In response to Stoppard’s work, the author (Ed. S. Bouchard) began by deconstructing his post-1970s worldview, a framework that has been articulated by the classical critics of English Literature. He explains in its most important detail the concept of “transcendent philosophy,” i.e., the analysis of what Stoppard conceives as the ideal philosopher-artist relationship.
Energetic philosophy: the process of building new identities in a postmodern society.
Concretely, the notion that people in the post-1970s are living in a post-scarcity world is not so new to him.
In most Western societies, postmodernism is the philosophy of a particular kind: the belief that the future should be taken from us and used for good, to be replaced by new people having a better view of the world. This is an alternative, and therefore much more relevant, philosophy. This ‘poverty of the future’ philosophy was a critique of a particular form of capitalism, one that allowed individuals to take the risk of going directly to the future.
Postmodernist philosophy is not just nihilist, it is deeply pessimistic within an intellectual framework that would only ever take on another form if it failed to take into account possible future contingencies: as things can’t ever fully be brought together in life. This view was, therefore, not merely a reflection of the general pessimism of postmodernism. On the contrary, postmodernism is about fundamentally changing these very same contingencies, rather than simply being about the future, for it has in fact been more difficult to predict these contingencies in advance. Postmodernism is an attempt to move ahead of this process, and so there is no other way of doing this.
 began by deconstructing his post-1970s worldview, a framework that has been articulated by the classical critics of English Literature. He explains in its most important detail the concept of “transcendent philosophy,” i.e., the analysis of what Stoppard conceives as the ideal philosopher-artist relationship.</p>
<p>Energetic philosophy: the process of building new identities in a postmodern society. </p>
<p>Concretely, the notion that people in the post-1970s are living in a post-scarcity world is not so new to him.</p>
<p>In most Western societies, postmodernism is the philosophy of a particular kind: the belief that the future should be taken from us and used for good, to be replaced by new people having a better view of the world. This is an alternative, and therefore much more relevant, philosophy. This ‘poverty of the future’ philosophy was a critique of a particular form of capitalism, one that allowed individuals to take the risk of going directly to the future.</p>
<p>Postmodernist philosophy is not just nihilist, it is deeply pessimistic within an intellectual framework that would only ever take on another form if it failed to take into account possible future contingencies: as things can’t ever fully be brought together in life. This view was, therefore, not merely a reflection of the general pessimism of postmodernism. On the contrary, postmodernism is about fundamentally changing these very same contingencies, rather than simply being about the future, for it has in fact been more difficult to predict these contingencies in advance. Postmodernism is an attempt to move ahead of this process, and so there is no other way of doing this.</p>
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