Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome: The Constitution of Emersonian Perfectionism: The Carus Lectures, 1988University of Chicago Press, Jan 11, 2018 - 163 pages In these three lectures, Cavell situates Emerson at an intersection of three crossroads: a place where both philosophy and literature pass; where the two traditions of English and German philosophy shun one another; where the cultures of America and Europe unsettle one another. "Cavell's 'readings' of Wittgenstein and Heidegger and Emerson and other thinkers surely deepen our understanding of them, but they do much more: they offer a vision of what life can be and what culture can mean. . . . These profound lectures are a wonderful place to make [Cavell's] acquaintance."—Hilary Putnam |
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Page xi
... Perfec- tionism is the basis of the human relationship , called remarriage , engendering the narrative ( and its negation ) in the two genres of film I had been looking to define . The condition of this linking , for me , was the idea ...
... Perfec- tionism is the basis of the human relationship , called remarriage , engendering the narrative ( and its negation ) in the two genres of film I had been looking to define . The condition of this linking , for me , was the idea ...
Page xviii
... Perfec- tionism to Kant's discussion of genius and taste . And of Erin Kelly's paper pressing the idea , as in my Lecture 1 , of becoming ashamed of one's shame . And of a conversation with Martin Stone on the idea of the true self ...
... Perfec- tionism to Kant's discussion of genius and taste . And of Erin Kelly's paper pressing the idea , as in my Lecture 1 , of becoming ashamed of one's shame . And of a conversation with Martin Stone on the idea of the true self ...
Page xix
... perfec- tionist transformation , a new attainment of the self ; a passing bite of guilt might suffice . The relative occlusion in academic moral philosophy of the di- mension of the moral life spoken for in Moral Perfectionism has gone ...
... perfec- tionist transformation , a new attainment of the self ; a passing bite of guilt might suffice . The relative occlusion in academic moral philosophy of the di- mension of the moral life spoken for in Moral Perfectionism has gone ...
Page xxii
... perfec- tionism's picture of itself that it does not seek to impose itself by power but recommends itself in its powerlessness . The constraint it seeks to its standard ( this echoes a phrase of xxii PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
... perfec- tionism's picture of itself that it does not seek to impose itself by power but recommends itself in its powerlessness . The constraint it seeks to its standard ( this echoes a phrase of xxii PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
Page xxiv
... perfec- tionisms may , at the resultant tolerance by justice of , let us say , vul- garity ( it may be called obscenity , or unnaturalness , or superstition , or irreverence ) ; it directs its judgment rather against the point at which ...
... perfec- tionisms may , at the resultant tolerance by justice of , let us say , vul- garity ( it may be called obscenity , or unnaturalness , or superstition , or irreverence ) ; it directs its judgment rather against the point at which ...
Contents
Staying the Course | 1 |
Emersonian Representations in Heidegger and Nietzsche | 33 |
Scenes of Instruction in Wittgenstein and in Kripke | 64 |
Rawls and the Drama of Consent | 101 |
Epilogue | 127 |
Hope against Hope | 129 |
A Cover Letter | 139 |
Bibliography | 143 |
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