A Pitch of Philosophy: Autobiographical ExercisesThis book is an invitation to the life of philosophy in the United States, as Emerson once lived it and as Stanley Cavell now lives it—in all its topographical ambiguity. Cavell talks about his vocation in connection with what he calls voice—the tone of philosophy—and his right to take that tone, and to describe an anecdotal journey toward the discovery of his own voice. |
Contents
The Metaphysical Voice 59 Worlds of Philosophical Difference | 67 |
Pictures of Destruction 75 Derridas Austin and the Stake | 86 |
Exclusion of the Theory of the NonSerious 88 Skepticism and | 118 |
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