Title
Stanley Cavell and the Education of Grownups / ed. by Paul Standish, Naoko Saito.
ISBN
9780823292639
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2012
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (274 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1515/9780823292639 doi
Summary
What could it mean to speak of philosophy as "the education of grownups"? This book takes Stanley Cavell's much-"ed, yet enigmatic phrase as the provocation for a series of explorations into themes of education that run throughout his work - through his response to Wittgenstein, Austin and ordinary language philosophy, through his readings of Thoreau and of the moral perfectionism he identifies with Emerson, through his discussions of literature and film. Hilary Putnam has described Cavell not only as one of the most creative thinkers of today but as amongst the few contemporary philosophers to explore the territory of philosophy as education. Yet in mainstream philosophy his work is apt to be referred to rather than engaged with, and the full import of his writings for education is still to be appreciated. Cavell engages in a sustained exploration of the nature of philosophy, and this is not separable from his preoccupation with what it is to teach and to learn, with the kinds of transformation these might imply, and with the significance of these things for our language and politics, for our lives as a whole. In recent years Cavell's work has been the subject of a number of books of essays, but this is the first to address directly the importance of education in his work. Such matters cannot fail to be of significance not only for the disciplinary fields of philosophy and education, but in politics, literature, and film studies - and in the humanities as a whole. A substantial introduction provides an overview of the philosophical purchase of questions of education in his work, while the essays are framed by two new pieces by Cavell himself. The book shows what it means to read Cavell, and simultaneously what it means to read philosophically, in itself a part of our education as grownups.
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System Details Note
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023)
Series
American Philosophy
Available in Other Form
print 9780823234745
Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
1 Philosophy as the Education of Grownups
Part I : Entries in the Education of Grownups
2 The Fact/Value Dichotomy and Its Critics
3 Encountering Cavell: The Education of a Grownup
Part II: Skepticism and Language
4 Skepticism, Acknowledgement, and the Ownership of Learning
5 Sensual Schooling: On the Aesthetic Education of Grownups
Part III: Moral Perfectionism and Education
6 Voice and the Interrogation of Philosophy: Inheritance, Abandonment, and Jazz
7 Perfectionism's Educational Address
8 The Gleam of Light: Initiation, Prophesy, and Emersonian Moral Perfectionism
9 The Ordinary as Sublime in Cavell, Zen, and Nishida: Cavell's Philosophy of Education in East-West Perspective
Coda
10 Philosophy as Education
Notes
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
