Stanley Cavell on Aesthetic Understanding
This book investigates the scope and significance of Stanley Cavell's lifelong and lasting contribution to aesthetic understanding. Focusing on various strands of the rich body of Cavell's philosophical work, the authors explore connections between his wide-ranging writings on literature,...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2018.
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| Έκδοση: | 1st ed. 2018. |
| Σειρά: | Philosophers in Depth
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- 1. Introduction; Garry L. Hagberg
- Part I: Understanding Persons Through Film
- 2. I Want to Know More About You: On Knowing and Acknowledging in Chinatown; Francey Russell
- 3. Other Minds and Unknown Women: The Case of Gaslight; Jay R.Elliott.-4. The Melodrama of the Unknown Man; Peter Dula
- Part II: Shakespeare, Opera, and Philosophical Interpretation.-5. Cordelia's Moral Incapacity in King Lear David Anthony Holiday
- 6. Disowning Certainty: Tragic and Comic Skepticism in Cavell, Montaigne, and Shakespeare; Stan Benfell.-7. Must We Mean What We Sing?: Cosi fan tutte and the Lease of Voice; Ian Ground
- Part III: Aesthetic Understanding and Moral Life.-8. What Matters: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Importance; Sandra Laugier.-9. Achilles' Tears: Cavell, the Iliad, and Possibilities for the Human; David LaRocca.-10. Wittgenstein "in the midst of" Life, Death, Sanity, Madness - and Mathematics: Cavellian Themes; Richard McDonough
- Part IV: Reading Fiction and Literary Understanding
- 11. Fraudulence, Knowledge, and Post-Imperial Geographies in John Le Carré's Fiction: A Cavellian Postcolonial Reading; Alan Johnson
- 12. Must We Do What We Say? The Plight of Marriage and Conversation in George Meredith's The Egoist; Erin Greer
- 13. Within the Words of Henry James: Cavell as Austinian Reader; Garry L. Hagberg
- Index.
