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The claim of reason : Wittgenstein, skepticism, morality, and tragedy

Author: Stanley Cavell
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"This new edition of Stanley Cavell's landmark text, first published 20 years ago, provides a new preface that discusses the reception and influence of his work, which occupies a unique niche between philosophy and literary studies."--BOOK JACKET.
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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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"This new edition of Stanley Cavell's landmark text, first published 20 years ago, provides a new preface that discusses the reception and influence of his work, which occupies a unique niche between philosophy and literary studies."--BOOK JACKET.

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