Stanley Cavell

Stanley Cavell
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216
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9780745623573
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Книги издательства Willey

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Stanley Cavell is a leading figure in American philosophy and one of the most exhilarating and wide–ranging intellectuals of our time. In this book Espen Hammer offers a lucid and thorough account of the development of Cavell?s work, from his early writings on ordinary language philosophy and skepticism to his most recent contributions to film studies, literary theory, romanticism, ethics, andpolitics. The book traces the many lines of skepticism occurring in Cavell?s work and shows how they amount to a rich and subtle picture of human subjectivity. Hammer explores Cavell?s passionate engagement with Austin and Wittgenstein?s visions of language, and his uncovering of conceptions of theordinary in Emerson and Thoreau. Central sections of the book are devoted to the tragic and the comic as these modes of existence come into play in Shakespeare and Hollywood cinematic drama. In elaborating Cavell?s responses to thinkers such as Heidegger, Levinas, and Derrida, the author...

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