Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life - Couverture souple

Cavell, Stanley

 
9780674018181: Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0674018184 ISBN 13 : 9780674018181
Editeur : Belknap Press, 2005

Synopsis

Since Socrates and his circle first tried to frame the Just City in words, discussion of a perfect communal life--a life of justice, reflection, and mutual respect--has had to come to terms with the distance between that idea and reality. Measuring this distance step by practical step is the philosophical project that Stanley Cavell has pursued on his exploratory path. Situated at the intersection of two of his longstanding interests--Emersonian philosophy and the Hollywood comedy of remarriage--Cavell's new work marks a significant advance in this project. The book--which presents a course of lectures Cavell presented several times toward the end of his teaching career at Harvard--links masterpieces of moral philosophy and classic Hollywood comedies to fashion a new way of looking at our lives and learning to live with ourselves.

This book offers philosophy in the key of life. Beginning with a rereading of Emerson's "Self-Reliance," Cavell traces the idea of perfectionism through works by Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Kant, Mill, Nietzsche, and Rawls, and by such artists as Henry James, George Bernard Shaw, and Shakespeare. Cities of Words shows that this ever-evolving idea, brought to dramatic life in movies such as It Happened One Night, The Awful Truth, The Philadelphia Story, and The Lady Eve, has the power to reorient the perception of Western philosophy.

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À propos de l?auteur

Stanley Cavell (1926-2018) was Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Emeritus, at Harvard University. His numerous books include The Claim of Reason, Cities of Words, and Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow.

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Éditeur
Belknap Press
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0674018184
ISBN 13 
9780674018181
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
480
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9780674013360: Cities of Words.: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0674013360 ISBN 13 :  9780674013360
Editeur : The Belknap Press, 2004
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