In Quest of the Ordinary: Lines of Skepticism and Romanticism

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University of Chicago Press, 2018 M06 29 - 208 pages
These lectures by one of the most influential and original philosophers of the twentieth century constitute a sustained argument for the philosophical basis of romanticism, particularly in its American rendering. Through his examination of such authors as Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Wordsworth, and Coleridge, Stanley Cavell shows that romanticism and American transcendentalism represent a serious philosophical response to the challenge of skepticism that underlies the writings of Wittgenstein and Austin on ordinary language.
 

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RECONSTRUCTING INDIVIDUALISM 1984
103
At Stanford THE TANNER LECTURE 1986
151
At Vienna CELEBRATION LECTURE 1986
179
Bibliography
189
Index
197
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