Stanley Cavell : philosophy's recounting of the ordinary / Stephen Mulhall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mulhall, Stephen, 1962- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cavell, Stanley, 1926-2018.

Cavell, Stanley.

Philosophy, Modern--20th century.

Philosophy, Modern.

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Psychoanalysis and philosophy.

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 351 pages)

Other Title:

Philosophy's recounting of the ordinary

Place of Publication:

Oxford University Press 1999

Summary:

This text presents a philosophical study of the work of Stanley Cavell, best known for his highly influential contributions to the fields of film studies, Shakespearian literary criticism and the confluence of psychoanalysis and literary theory.

Contents:

Introduction: On Saying What We Mean. Speaking for Ourselves, Speaking for Others. Bespeaking the World

pt. I. Patterns, Agreement, and Rationality. 1. Aesthetics: Hume, Kant, and Criticism. 2. Morality: Emotivism and Agreement. The Logic of Moral Discourse. Self and Community: Art, Morality, Philosophy. 3. Politics: The Social Contract

Conclusion to Part I. Philosophy's Affirmation of Modernity

pt. II. Criteria, Scepticism, and Romanticism. 4. Criteria, Scepticism, and the External World. Identify and Existence. Specific and Generic Objects. Grounds for Knowledge and Grounds for Doubt. A Refutation of Scepticism? 5. Criteria, Scepticism, and Other Minds. Withholding Concepts of the Inner: Knowledge and Acknowledgement.

Withholding Concepts of the Inner: The Normal and the Natural. Private Languages and Seeing Aspects. Empathic Projection. Knowing and Being Known. 6. Criteria, Counting, and Recounting. Doubt and Jealousy. Doubt and Death. Acknowledgement and Life. Recovery and Transfiguration. Thought and Existence. Writing, Reading, and Being Read

pt. III. Common Themes, Competing Perspectives

Introduction to Part III. Redemptive Reading: Refractions and Reflexivities. 7. Shakespeare: Scepticism and Tragedy. The Nature of Shakespearean Tragic Drama. The Winters' Tale. 8. Psychoanalysis: Practices of Recovery. Psychoanalytic Readings and Reading as Psychoanalysis. A Reading of Psychoanalysis. 9. Cinema: Photography, Comedy, Melodrama. Photography and Film. The Comedy of Remarriage.

The Melodrama of the Unknown Woman

pt. IV. Philosophy, Perfectionism, and Religion. 10. Thoreau: Writing, Mourning, Neighboring. 11. Emerson: Perfectionism, Idiosyncrasy, Justice. 12. 'Philosophy Cannot Say Sin'. Cavell contra Christianity. Between Christianity and Liberalism. Christianity contra Cavell

Postscript: Philosophy's Closet. Patriarchy, Homophobia, and Male Homosexual Panic. Philosophy, Scepticism, and the Repression of the Female Voice. Provoking Conversation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

0-19-165899-5

0-19-103697-8

OCLC:

1119625559