Stanley Cavell: Philosophy's Recounting of the OrdinaryClarendon Press, 1994 - 351 pages This is the first full-length philosophical study of the work of Stanley Cavell, best known for his seminal contributions to the fields of film studies, Shakespearian literary criticism, and the confluence of psychoanalysis and literary theory. It is not fully appreciated that Cavell's project originated in his interpretation of Austin's and Wittgenstein's ordinary-language philosophy and is given unity by an abiding concern with the nature and the varying cultural manifestations of the skeptical impulse in modernity. This book elucidates the essentially philosophical roots and trajectory of Cavell's work, traces its links with Romanticism and its recent turn toward a species of moral perfectionism associated with Thoreau and Emerson, and concludes with an assessment of its relations to liberal-democratic political theory, Christian religious thought, and feminist literary studies. |
Contents
Bespeaking the World | 12 |
Hume Kant and Criticism | 23 |
Emotivism and Agreement | 34 |
Art Morality Philosophy | 48 |
The Social Contract | 55 |
Conclusion to Part I Philosophys Affirmation | 69 |
Criteria Scepticism and the External World | 77 |
Specific and Generic Objects | 85 |
Knowing and Being Known | 138 |
Acknowledgement and Life | 150 |
Scepticism and Tragedy | 196 |
Practices of Recovery | 207 |
A Reading of Psychoanalysis | 215 |
Photography Comedy Melodrama | 223 |
The Comedy of Remarriage | 231 |
Writing Mourning Neighbouring | 249 |
Grounds for Knowledge and Grounds for Doubt | 94 |
A Refutation of Scepticism? | 102 |
Criteria Scepticism and Other Minds | 108 |
The Normal and | 114 |
Private Languages and Seeing Aspects | 122 |
Empathic Projection | 130 |
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