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| Named Person: | Ludwig Wittgenstein; Ludwig Wittgenstein |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Stanley Cavell |
| ISBN: | 019513107X 9780195131079 |
| OCLC Number: | 39963304 |
| Notes: | Originally published: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1979. With new pref. |
| Description: | xxvi, 511 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Pt. 1. Wittgenstein and the Concept of Human Knowledge -- I. Criteria and Judgment -- II. Criteria and Skepticism -- III. Austin and Examples -- IV. What a Thing Is (Called) -- V. Natural and Conventional -- Pt. 2. Skepticism and the Existence of the World -- VI. The Quest of Traditional Epistemology: Opening -- VII. Excursus on Wittgenstein's Vision of Language -- VIII. The Quest of Traditional Epistemology: Closing -- Pt. 3. Knowledge and the Concept of Morality -- IX. Knowledge and the Basis of Morality -- X. An Absence of Morality -- XI. Rules and Reasons -- XII. The Autonomy of Morals -- Pt. 4. Skepticism and the Problem of Others -- XIII. Between Acknowledgment and Avoidance. |
| Responsibility: | Stanley Cavell. |
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Discusses the reception and influence of the work, which occupies a niche between philosophy and literary studies.
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<br>"An altogether remarkable work of American philosophy...that occupies the buffer zone between poetry and philosophy in a unique--and perhaps uniquely American way."--Critical Inquiry<p><br>"An intensely personal and uniquely provocative book. Stanley Cavell is a philosophical original."--Review of Metaphysics<p><br> Read more...
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