Stanley Cavell on Aesthetic Understanding / edited by Garry L. Hagberg.
Hagberg, Garry L., editor
2018
BH1-301
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Title Stanley Cavell on Aesthetic Understanding / edited by Garry L. Hagberg.
ISBN 9783319974668
3319974661
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97466-8
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (XIX, 365 pages 1 illustration) : illustrations
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-97466-8 doi
Call Number BH1-301
Dewey Decimal Classification 111.85
Summary This book investigates the scope and significance of Stanley Cavell's lifelong and lasting contribution to aesthetic understanding. Focusing on various strands of the rich body of Cavell's philosophical work, the authors explore connections between his wide-ranging writings on literature, music, film, opera, autobiography, Wittgenstein, and Austin to contemporary currents in aesthetic thinking. Most centrally, the writings brought together here from an international team of senior, mid-career, and emerging scholars, explore the illuminating power of Cavell's work for our deeper and richer comprehension of the intricate relations between aesthetic and ethical understanding. The chapters show what aesthetic understanding consists of, how such understanding might be articulated in the tradition of Cavell following Wittgenstein and J.L. Austin, and why this mode of human understanding is particularly important. At a time of quickening interest in Cavell and the tradition of which he is a central part and present-day leading exponent, this book offers insight into the deepest contributions of a major American philosopher and the profound role that aesthetic experience can play in the humane understanding of persons, society, and culture.
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Series Philosophers in depth.
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1. Introduction; Garry L. Hagberg
Part I: Understanding Persons Through Film
2. I Want to Know More About You: On Knowing and Acknowledging in Chinatown; Francey Russell
3. Other Minds and Unknown Women: The Case of Gaslight; Jay R. Elliott.-4. The Melodrama of the Unknown Man; Peter Dula
Part II: Shakespeare, Opera, and Philosophical Interpretation.-5. Cordelia's Moral Incapacity in King Lear David Anthony Holiday
6. Disowning Certainty: Tragic and Comic Skepticism in Cavell, Montaigne, and Shakespeare; Stan Benfell.-7. Must We Mean What We Sing?: Cosi fan tutte and the Lease of Voice; Ian Ground
Part III: Aesthetic Understanding and Moral Life.-8. What Matters: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Importance; Sandra Laugier.-9. Achilles' Tears: Cavell, the Iliad, and Possibilities for the Human; David LaRocca.-10. Wittgenstein "in the midst of" Life, Death, Sanity, Madness
and Mathematics: Cavellian Themes; Richard McDonough
Part IV: Reading Fiction and Literary Understanding
11. Fraudulence, Knowledge, and Post-Imperial Geographies in John Le Carré's Fiction: A Cavellian Postcolonial Reading; Alan Johnson
12. Must We Do What We Say? The Plight of Marriage and Conversation in George Meredith's The Egoist; Erin Greer
13. Within the Words of Henry James: Cavell as Austinian Reader; Garry L. Hagberg
Index.

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