The claim to community : essays on Stanley Cavell and political philosophy / edited by Andrew Norris.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Norris, Andrew John.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Cavell, Stanley, 1926-2018--Political and social views.

Cavell, Stanley.

Cavell, Stanley, 1926-2018.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Communities.

Political and social views.

Physical Description:

viii, 389 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006.

Summary:

Stanley Cavell's unique contributions to the study of epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, film, Shakespeare, and American philosophy have all received wide acclaim. But there has been relatively little recognition of the pertinence of Cavell's work to our understanding of political philosophy. The Claim to Community fills this gap with essays from a wide range of prominent American, English, French, and Italian philosophers and political theorists, as well as a lengthy response to the essays by Cavell himself. The topics covered include Cavell's understanding of political community, philosophical anthropology, moral perfectionism, the positivist distinction between fact and value, political friendship, the differences between political and aesthetic disagreement, political romanticism, "the pursuit of happiness," tragedy, and race. There are also evaluations of the ways Cavell's positions on these and other matters compare with those of Plato, Aristotle, Montaigne, Kant, John Stuart Mill, Thoreau, Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, Hannah Arendt, Carl Schmitt, Peter Winch, Wittgenstein, and Fred Astaire. This volume will be of great interest to political theorists and political philosophers, as well as to students of literature and film.

Contents:

Introduction: Stanley Cavell and the claim to community / Andrew Norris

Wittgenstein and Cavell : anthropology, skepticism, and politics / Sandra Laugier

Bringing truth home : Mill, Wittgenstein, Cavell, and moral perfectionism / Piergiorgio Donatelli

Telling the dancer from the dance : on the relevance of the ordinary for political thought / Joseph Lima and Tracy B. Strong

Political revisions : Stanley Cavell and political philosophy / Andrew Norris

Perfectionism without perfection : Cavell, Montaigne and the conditions of morals and politics / Richard Flathman

Perfectionism, parrhesia, and the care of the self : Foucault and Cavell on ethics and politics / David Owen

Stanley Cavell and the limits of appreciation / Ted Cohen

Cavell and political romanticism / Espen Hammer

Stanley Cavell and the pursuits of happiness / Hans Sluga

Cordelia's calculus : love and loneliness in Cavell's reading of Lear / Thomas L. Dumm

Aesthetics and receptivity : Kant, Nietzsche, Cavell, and Astaire / Robert Gooding-Williams

The incessance and the absence of the political / Stanley Cavell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-373) and index.

ISBN:

0804751293

0804751323

OCLC:

64595843

Publisher Number:

9780804751292

9780804751322