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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays investigates the relevance of Stanley Cavell's work to political philosophy.
Trade Review"This new book edited by Norris brings together a collection of papers examining the relationship between Stanley Cavell and political philosophy...an exciting new page in Cavellian studies." --
Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus Philosophiques"The very learned essays in this collection do much to illuminate what Cavell gains from his response to Wittgenstein and Austin, and even to such American authors as Emerson and Thoreau, not to mention films and plays." --
CHOICE"How do we cultivate the arts of political judgment, conversation, and civility? Stanley Cavell, for over four decades, has awakened us to this question and helped to compose some answers. In this artful and lively collection, Andrew Norris gathers together a diverse group of writers who continue the fascinating experiments Cavell has launched." -- Jane Bennett * The Johns Hopkins University *
"This marvelous collection of essays is the best available examination of the most profound and interdisciplinary American philosopher writing today: Stanley Cavell. It not only probes the complex relation of Cavells work to political philosophy; it also shows that there can be no serious grasp of Cavells thought without acknowledging his deep commitment to the problematic of democratic practice and the Emersonian
paideia of we ordinary citizens." -- Cornel West * Princeton University *
Table of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments iii @toc2:1 Introduction: Stanley Cavell and the Claim to Community 000 @tocca:Andrew Norris @toc2:2 Wittgenstein and Cavell: Anthropology, Skepticism, and Politics 000 @tocca:Sandra Laugier @toc2:3 Bringing Truth Home: Mill, Wittgenstein, Cavell and Moral Perfectionism 000 @tocca:Piergiorgio Donatelli @toc2:4 Telling the Dancer from the Dance: On the Relevance of the Ordinary for Political Thought 000 @tocca:Joseph Lima and Tracy B. Strong @toc2:5 Political Revisions: Stanley Cavell and Political Philosophy 000 @tocca:Andrew Norris @toc2:6 Perfectionism Without Perfection: Cavell, Montaigne and the Conditions of Morals and Politics 000 @tocca:Richard Flathman @toc2:7 Perfectionism, Parrhesia and the Care of the Self: Foucault and Cavell on Ethics and Politics 000 @tocca:David Owen @toc2:8 Stanley Cavell and the Limits of Appreciation 000 @tocca:Ted Cohen @toc2:9 Cavell and Political Romanticism 000 @tocca:Espen Hammer @toc2:10 Stanley Cavell and the Pursuits of Happiness 000 @tocca:Hans Sluga @toc2:11 Cordelia's Calculus: Love and Loneliness in Cavell's Reading of Lear 000 @tocca:Thomas L. Dumm @toc2:12 Aesthetics and Receptivity: Kant, Nietzsche, Cavell, and Astaire 000 @tocca:Robert Gooding Williams @toc2:13 The Incessance and the Absence of the Political 000 @tocca:Stanley Cavell @toc4:Contributors ooo Index 000
