Themes out of School: Effects and Causes

Cavell, Stanley

ISBN 10: 0226097889 / ISBN 13: 9780226097886

Edité par University of Chicago Press, 1988

N° de réf. du vendeur 0226097889-3-32812744

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.

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 bibliographiques

Titre : Themes out of School: Effects and Causes
Éditeur : University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition : 1988
Reliure : paperback
Etat : Good
Edition : 2ème Édition