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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... response , which sometimes expresses itself in silence . ) But it appears that Dr. Jaquith does almost all of the talking when the two leave the room , as they walk up flights of marble stairs and enter Charlotte's own room where ...
... response to film reveals the response to film as inherently exces- sive , say inherently melodramatic . But then , where , in response to the arts , can one's response not be said to be excessive ? Works of art are only dumb objects ...
... response to the events of the tale we are now in possession of , not perhaps to imitate this response , but to respond to it . In the story the response is the recognition that causes the man to throw himself on the grave ; in the film ...
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 |