Cities of WordsHarvard University Press, 2004 M05 24 - 480 pages Since Socrates and his circle first tried to frame the Just City in words, discussion of a perfect communal life--a life of justice, reflection, and mutual respect--has had to come to terms with the distance between that idea and reality. Measuring this distance step by practical step is the philosophical project that Stanley Cavell has pursued on his exploratory path. Situated at the intersection of two of his longstanding interests--Emersonian philosophy and the Hollywood comedy of remarriage--Cavell's new work marks a significant advance in this project. The book--which presents a course of lectures Cavell presented several times toward the end of his teaching career at Harvard--links masterpieces of moral philosophy and classic Hollywood comedies to fashion a new way of looking at our lives and learning to live with ourselves. |
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... become Socrateses or Buddhas or Christs , all but unprovokable . But we are asked to make even justified anger and hatred intelligible , and to be responsible for their expression in our lives , and some- times , not always and ...
... become " visible " or " sensible " to " the greater part " ? What has become visible - the rulers ' designs and attempts , or the greater part of the people's becoming sensible of their lives ' destruction ? It is only the people's ...
... become one . True , she says that what makes a lady is being treated as a lady , but that is an expression of her still limited point of view . And what is that point of view ? Everyone asks what's to become of Eliza . But what has ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
John Stuart Mill 82 6 Gaslight | 102 |
Themes of Moral Perfectionism in Platos Republic | 445 |
Copyright | |
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Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life Stanley Cavell Limited preview - 2005 |
Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life Stanley Cavell Limited preview - 2005 |