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Emerson's Transatlantic Romanticism
D. GreenhamArsić, Branka. On Leaving: A Reading in Emerson. Harvard: Harvard UP, 2011. Print. —— and Cary Wolfe eds. ... Cavell, Stanley. The Senses of Walden ( Expanded Edition).San Francisco:North Point,1981. Print. —— In Questofthe Ordinary: ...
Skepticism Films: Knowing and Doubting the World in ...
Philipp Schmerheim“The Fact of Television,” in Stanley Cavell, Cavell on Film, 59–85, edited and with an introduction by William Rothman. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. Cavell, Stanley. [1983] 2005. “The Thought of Movies,” in Stanley Cavell, ...
Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, ...
Cary WolfeIn Animal Rites, Cary Wolfe examines contemporary notions of humanism and ethics by reconstructing a little known but crucial underground tradition of theorizing the animal from Wittgenstein, Cavell, and Lyotard to Lévinas, Derrida, ...
Critical Environments: Postmodern Theory and the Pragmatics ...
Cary WolfeUnique in its collation of major theorists rarely considered together, Critical Environments incorporates detailed discussions of the work of Richard Rorty, Walter Benn Michaels, Stanley Cavell, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, Niklas ...
Cavell on Film
Stanley CavellIn his introduction, William Rothman provides an overview of Cavell's work on film and his aims as a philosopher more generally."--BOOK JACKET.
Must We Mean What We Say?: A Book of Essays
Stanley CavellIn this classic collection of wide-ranging and interdisciplinary essays, Stanley Cavell explores a remarkably broad range of philosophical issues from politics and ethics to the arts and philosophy.
Emerson's Transcendental Etudes
Stanley CavellThis book is Stanley Cavell_s definitive expression on Emerson. Over the past thirty years, Cavell has demonstrated that he is the most emphatic and provocative philosophical critic of Emerson that America has yet known.
In Quest of the Ordinary: Lines of Skepticism and Romanticism
Stanley CavellThrough 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 ...
The Senses of Walden: An Expanded Edition
Stanley CavellStanley Cavell, one of America's most distinguished philosophers, has written an invaluable companion volume to Walden, a seminal book in our cultural heritage. This expanded edition includes two essays on Emerson.
On Leaving: A Reading in Emerson
Branka ArsićIn his essay âeoeCompensation,âe Emerson makes a surprising claim: âeoeEvery soul is by this intrinsic necessity quitting its whole system of things, its friends, and home, and laws, and faith, as the shell-fish crawls out of its ...
Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame
Cary WolfeBringing these two emergent areas of thought into direct conversation in Before the Law, Cary Wolfe fosters a new discussion about the status of nonhuman animals and the shared plight of humans and animals under biopolitics.
Contending with Stanley Cavell
PreviewThis collection showcases this new work, while illustrating the variety of Cavell's interests: in the "ordinary language" philosophy of Wittgenstein and Austin, in film criticism and theory, in literature, psychoanalysis, and the American ...
Colorado Keys: A Cary Wolfe Novel Book One
Tom HuckabeeI was happy to be pulled from it by the call. “Cary, this is Paul. How are you doing?” the familiar voice came through the phone. “Paul, how the hell are you?” “I need a favor. Can you get to Aspen?
Shakespeare and the Law
Preview17 Stanley Cavell, Disowning Knowledge in Seven Plays of Shakespeare ( updated edn, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004) 165. 18 Girard, n 16 above, at 210. 19 Cavell, n 17 above, at 168. 20 Brian C Lockey, Law and Empire in ...
Reading Cavell's The World Viewed: A Philosophical ...
William RothmanA philosophical reexamination of Stanley Cavell's The World Viewed.
Disowning Knowledge: In Seven Plays of Shakespeare
Stanley CavellReissued with an essay on Macbeth this is a collection of essays on Shakespeare's tragedies.
Cary
Sherry MonahanThe railroad soon reached Cary, and in 1868, Frank saw the opportunity to start a new venture and built a hotel, which served meals and provided accommodations to train passengers. Cary was incorporated in 1871.
Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage
Stanley CavellLooks at seven classic romantic comedies of the thirties and forties, and compares what each film expresses about marriage, interdependence, equality, and sexual roles
The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and ...
Stanley CavellThe first three parts of this book deal with the tension between ordinary language philosophy (as envisioned in the writings of J.L. Austin and the later Wittgenstein) and the 'tradition.
Philosophy and Animal Life
Stanley CavellThis groundbreaking collection of contributions by leading philosophers offers a new way of thinking about animal rights, our obligation to animals, and the nature of philosophy itself.
What is Posthumanism?
Cary WolfeIn What Is Posthumanism? he carefully distinguishes posthumanism from transhumanism (the biotechnological enhancement of human beings) and narrow definitions of the posthuman as the hoped-for transcendence of materiality.
Stanley Cavell and the Claim of Literature
David RudrumThanks to Jami Bartlett and her colleagues at the University of California, Irvine, for inviting me to talk about tragedy, and to Jan Balakian and Joshua Polster for the opportunity to air my views on Miller—both were immensely rewarding ...
The Limits of American Literary Ideology in Pound and Emerson
Cary WolfeThe main purpose of the book is to demonstrate that any form of individualism that is modelled on the logic and structure of private property will always reproduce the very contradictions and alienations that it set out to criticise and to ...
Jeff Brown's Flat Stanley: The Flying Chinese Wonders
Josh GreenhutJosh Greenhut. Read all of Stanley Lambchop's adventures by Jeff Brown Flat Stanley Stanley and the Magic Lamp Invisible Stanley Stanley in Space Stanley's Christmas Adventure Stanley, Flat Again! And lots of new adventures! by Sara ...
Edith Cavell, Her Life Story (Classic Reprint)
Herbert LeedsExcerpt from Edith Cavell, Her Life Story Dear Madam, By command of the King and Queen I write to assure you that the hearts of their Majesties go out to you in your bitter sorrow, and to express their horror at the appalling deed which has
Stanley Cavell, Literature, and Film: The Idea of America
Preview... and Ken Hiltner Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg and Alexandra Schultheis Moore Resistance to Science in Contemporary American Poetry Bryan Walpert Magic, Science, and Empire ...
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