In Quest of the Ordinary: Lines of Skepticism and RomanticismThese lectures by one of the most influential and original philosophers of the twentieth century constitute a sustained argument for the philosophical basis of romanticism, particularly in its American rendering. Through his examination of such authors as Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Wordsworth, and Coleridge, Stanley Cavell shows that romanticism and American transcendentalism represent a serious philosophical response to the challenge of skepticism that underlies the writings of Wittgenstein and Austin on ordinary language. |
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RECONSTRUCTING INDIVIDUALISM 1984 | 103 |
At Stanford THE TANNER LECTURE 1986 | 151 |
At Vienna CELEBRATION LECTURE 1986 | 179 |
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allegory American Ancient Mariner animism answer Austin beginning chapter Claim of Reason cogito Coleridge concept condition count denial deny Descartes Descartes's difference E. T. A. Hoffmann Emerson and Thoreau epistemology essay everyday example existence expression fact fantastic Fate feel follows Freud further Heidegger Heidegger's hence Hermione human idea imagine implied inheritance intellectual interest interpretation intuition Investigations issue Kant Kant's knowledge language games lecture Leontes literary literature living Mariner's marriage matter means metaphysics mind nature one's opening ordinary language philosophy Othello pathetic fallacy perhaps perverseness philoso play Poe's tale poem poetry Polixenes posture present Psychoanalysis Purloined Letter question reader reading relation response revenge romantic romanticism scene seems Self-Reliance sense skepticism skepticism's speak story suggests telling tence things thought threat tion turn uncanny understand Walden Winter's Tale wish Wittgenstein words Wordsworth writing