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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... pair past the obstacle of an older figure , usually a father , and see them married ( as , for example , in A Midsummer Night's Dream ) , these films concern getting a somewhat older pair who are already together past some inner ...
... pair , but presents , in a prologue , a whole opening drama , the stuff of melodrama or soap opera ( with the surrealistic comic touch of hav- ing the wife consult an instruction manual before she fires the gun ) . What is the point of ...
... pair still keep their indi- vidual counsels there is union in their moving in concert exactly away from us . It is , as I have emphasized , an essential feature of the genre of remarriage comedy that the films defining it close with ...
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 |