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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... understand itself , and therewith for philosophy , whose demand for freedom is incom- patible with slavery . ( This incompatibility may be denied , or repressed . It once helped me to assert a difference between the idea that some ...
... understand is why the woman describes her state as she does ( one in which a female back has received a last straw ) ... understanding . Would this be a resistance to something about the medium , or the reputation , of film ? Or perhaps a ...
... understand his behavior in daily life . " I should add , in recounting the crossing of paths in Freud and Wittgenstein , that I am less satisfied with Wittgenstein's well - known mottoes for understanding the resistances of philosophers ...
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 |