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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... speak , speak together , an association , accordingly , made for the human . Con- versation here means , as I have suggested for philosophy , my speaking for others and my being spoken for by others , not alone speaking to and be- ing ...
... speak for it . And it seems to me that what Locke's wavering indicates is his sense that this doubt is never permanently resolved . ( Wavering , I mean , between express and tacit ; between the existence of society and the validity of ...
... speak , at the ball , that he has desires and can ask her to rescue him from his fear of expression . The man's willingness to speak , to express desire , comes in response to the woman's courtroom declaration , under cross ...
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 |