Stanley Cavell on aesthetic understanding / Garry L. Hagberg, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hagberg, Garry, 1952- editor.

Series:

Philosophers in depth

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cavell, Stanley, 1926-2018.

Cavell, Stanley.

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

xix, 365 pages : music ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Understanding Persons Through Film

1. I Want to Know More About You: On Knowing and Acknowledging in Chinatown / Francey Russell

2. Other Minds and Unknown Women: The Case of Gaslight / Jay R. Elliott

3. The Melodrama of the Unknown Man / Peter Dula

pt. II Shakespeare, Opera, and Philosophical Interpretation

4. Cordelia's Moral Incapacity in King Lear / David A. Holiday

5. Disowning Certainty: Tragic and Comic Skepticism in Cavell, Montaigne, and Shakespeare / V. Stanley Benfell

6. Must We Mean What We Sing?

Cost Fan Tutte and the Lease of Voice / Ian Ground

pt. III Aesthetic Understanding and Moral Life

7. What Matters: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Importance / Sandra Laugier

8. Achilles' Tears: Cavell, the Iliad, and Possibilities for the Human / David LaRocca

9. Wittgenstein "in the Midst of Life, Death, Sanity, Madness

and Mathematics / Richard McDonough

pt. IV Reading Fiction and Literary Understanding

10. Fraudulence, Knowledge, and Post-Imperial Geographies in John Le Carre's Fiction: A Cavellian Postcolonial Reading / Alan Johnson

11. Must We Do What We Say? The Plight of Marriage and Conversation in George Meredith's The Egoist / Erin Greer

12. Within the Words of Henry James: Cavell as Austinian Reader / Garry L. Hagberg.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3319974653

9783319974651

OCLC:

1042404843