Themes out of School: Effects and Causes - Couverture souple

Cavell, Stanley

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0226097889 ISBN 13 : 9780226097886

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1988

Synopsis

In the first essay of this book, Stanley Cavell characterizes philosophy as a "willingness to think not about something other than what ordinary human beings think about, but rather to learn to think undistractedly about things that ordinary human beings cannot help thinking about, or anyway cannot help having occur to them, sometimes in fantasy, sometimes as a flash across a landscape."

Fantasies of film and television and literature, flashes across the landscape of literary theory, philosophical discourse, and French historiography give Cavell his starting points in these twelve essays. Here is philosophy in and out of "school," understood as a discipline in itself or thought through the works of Shakespeare, Molière, Kierkegaard, Thoreau, Brecht, Makavejev, Bergman, Hitchcock, Astaire, and Keaton.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0226097889
• ISBN 13: 9780226097886
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 282
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• Personne responsable: non disponible