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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... lives , in , say , our judgment of what we call their necessities , and their rights and goods , is within the scope of every human being ( of those , at any rate , free to talk about their lives and to modify them ) . In the period ...
... lives they wish to live and whether they wish to live them together , to consent to each other , to say yes to their lives and their life together ; nothing has happened between them that requires more than their mutual forgiveness . Of ...
... lives ' destruction ? It is only the people's sense that causes resistance and the desire for change . But this requires a reciprocal perception by the people of themselves . Something in their lives shows a change in the status of ...
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 |