Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral LifeThis 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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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictWhat does it mean to live a moral life? In his typically provocative fashion, Cavell (Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics & the General Theory of Value Emeritus, Harvard) answers this question by ... Read full review
Contents
Emerson | |
The Philadelphia Story | |
Locke | |
Adams | |
John Stuart Mill | |
Gaslight | |
Ibsen | |
Stella Dallas | |
Freud | |
The Lady | |
Plato | |
His Girl Friday | |
Aristotle | |
The Awful Truth | |
Kant | |
It Happened One Night | |
Rawls | |
Mr Deeds Goes to Town | |
Nietzsche | |
Now Voyager | |
Henry James and Max Ophuls | |
Pygmalion and Pygmalion | |
Two Tales of Winter | |
Themes of Moral Perfectionism in Platos Republic Acknowledgments | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life |
| Author | Stanley Cavell |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press, 2005 |
| ISBN | 0674971272, 9780674971271 |
| Length | 474 pages |
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