Alice Crary / Sanford Shieh (eds.)

Reading Cavell

Herausgeber: Crary, Alice; Shieh, Sanford

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Exploring the work of one of the most eminent figures in contemporary philosophy, this compelling account includes contributions from Hilary Putnam, Cora Diamond, Jim Conant and Stephen Mulhall.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 154mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 421g
• ISBN-13: 9780415346399
• ISBN-10: 0415346398
• Artikelnr.: 21834274

Autorenporträt

Sanford Shieh is associate professor of philosophy at Wesleyan University, USA. He is co-editor of Future Pasts: the Analytic Tradition in 20th Century Philosophy (OUP). Alice Crary is associate professor of philosophy at the New School University, New York. She is co-editor of The New Wittgenstein (Routledge 2000) and editor of Wittgenstein and the Moral Life (MIT).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The Wittgensteinian event
2 Suffering a sea change: crisis
catastrophe
and convention in the theory of speech-acts
3 Austin and the ethics of discourse
4 How to do things with pornography
5 The difficulty of reality and the difficulty of philosophy
6 Philosophy as the education of grownups: Stanley Cavell and skepticism
7 The truth of skepticism
8 The discovery of the other: Cavell
Fichte
and skepticism
9 On examples
representatives
measures
standards
and the ideal
10 Habitual remarriage: the ends of happiness in The Palm Beach Story
11 The recovery of Greece and the discovery of America
Index