UID:
almafu_9961988075202883
Format:
1 online resource (327 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780674260733
,
0674260732
Content:
Seeking for philosophy the same spirit and assurance conveyed by artists like Fred Astaire, Cavell presents essays exploring the meaning of grace and gesture in film and on stage, in language and in life. Critical to the renaissance in American thought Cavell hopes to provoke is the recognition of the centrality of the "ordinary" to American life.
Note:
Includes index.
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Something out of the ordinary -- The interminable Shakespearean text -- Fred Astaire asserts the right to praise -- Henry James returns to America and to Shakespeare -- Philosophy the day after tomorrow -- What is the scandal of skepticism? -- Performative and passionate utterance -- The Wittgensteinian event -- Thoreau thinks of ponds, Heidegger of rivers -- The world as things.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780674017047
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0674017048
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4159/9780674260733
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