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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... sense of disappointment with the world as a place in which to seek the satisfaction of human desire is not the same as a sense of the world as cursed , perhaps at best to be endured , perhaps as a kind of punishment for being human . This ...
... sense ? Meaning what ? That it is better or worse for the human race that a particular section of a town be converted to commercial use ? All Mill seems to mean is that rights and obligations are not to be " abstract " in this sense ...
... sense of political guilt , arising from a new civil intimacy , becomes possible , from which , as it were , hierarchy had protected us . Perhaps this may be pictured as the sense that while , if asked now to step behind the veil 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 |