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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... tion that I mainly take exception to - its placing of the idea of moral perfectionism - is , if valid , central enough to require further modi- fication , or whether it is marginal enough not to . My difficulties in thinking through my ...
... tion that I mainly take exception to - its placing of the idea of moral perfectionism - is , if valid , central enough to require further modi- fication , or whether it is marginal enough not to . My difficulties in thinking through my ...
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... tion of ultimate urgency , and ask what it was that caused Kant and Nietzsche , who figure in my text , to consider , in prenuclear times , the end of time . I will go on further in these prefatory words to express my sense of omission ...
... tion of ultimate urgency , and ask what it was that caused Kant and Nietzsche , who figure in my text , to consider , in prenuclear times , the end of time . I will go on further in these prefatory words to express my sense of omission ...
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... tion of advantage , generate snobbery ( and not just within the most advantaged ) . Since the ( secular ) perfectionist outlook I am sketching is concentrated within the position of the relatively advantaged ( which I am taking to ...
... tion of advantage , generate snobbery ( and not just within the most advantaged ) . Since the ( secular ) perfectionist outlook I am sketching is concentrated within the position of the relatively advantaged ( which I am taking to ...
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... tion of what is " left importantly to intuition . " When the conversa- tion of justice is directed to the constitution of the original position , and intuition is checked by principles , the conversation of justice comes to an end in a ...
... tion of what is " left importantly to intuition . " When the conversa- tion of justice is directed to the constitution of the original position , and intuition is checked by principles , the conversation of justice comes to an end in a ...
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... tion ; call this the acknowledgment of matching . For aesthetic judgment this claim is , as Kant famously formulates the matter , to be speaking with a universal voice . For moral judgment we might formulate the matter as the claim to ...
... tion ; call this the acknowledgment of matching . For aesthetic judgment this claim is , as Kant famously formulates the matter , to be speaking with a universal voice . For moral judgment we might formulate the matter as the claim to ...
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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