This New Yet Unapproachable America: Lectures after Emerson after Wittgenstein (Carpenter Lectures) - Tapa blanda

Cavell, Stanley

 
9780226037387: This New Yet Unapproachable America: Lectures after Emerson after Wittgenstein (Carpenter Lectures)
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ISBN 10: 022603738X ISBN 13: 9780226037387
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 2013

Sinopsis

Stanley Cavell is a titan of the academic world; his work in aesthetics and philosophy has shaped both fields in the United States over the past forty years. In this brief yet enlightening collection of lectures, Cavell investigates the work of two of his most tried-and-true subjects: Emerson and Wittgenstein. Beginning with an introductory essay that places his own work in a philosophical and historical context, Cavell guides his reader through his thought process when composing and editing his lectures while making larger claims about the influence of institutions on philosophers, and the idea of progress within the discipline of philosophy. In “Declining Decline,” Cavell explains how language modifies human existence, looking specifically at the culture of Wittgenstein’s writings. He draws on Emerson, Thoreau, and many others to make his case that Wittgenstein can indeed be viewed as a “philosopher of culture.” In his final lecture, “Finding as Founding,” Cavell writes in response to Emerson’s “Experience,” and explores the tension between the philosopher and language—that he or she must embrace language as his or her “form of life,” while at the same time surpassing its restrictions. He compares finding new ideas to discovering a previously unknown land in an essay that unabashedly celebrates the power and joy of philosophical thought.


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Stanley Cavell is the Walter M. Cabot Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and General Theory of Value at Harvard University and the author of many books. These include Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome, In Quest of the Ordinary, and Themes out of School, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Editorial
University of Chicago Press
Año de publicación
2013
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
022603738X
ISBN 13 
9780226037387
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Número de páginas
136
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9780945953005: This New Yet Unapproachable America: Lectures after Emerson after Wittgenstein (Frederick Ives Carpenter Lectures, 1987.)

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ISBN 10:  0945953003 ISBN 13:  9780945953005
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 1994
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