Stanley Cavell and the Education of Grownups

Stanley Cavell and the Education of Grownups
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Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages : 275
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ISBN-10 : 9780823234738
ISBN-13 : 0823234738
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis Stanley Cavell and the Education of Grownups by : Naoko Saito

What could it mean to speak of philosophy as the education of grownups? This book takes Cavell's enigmatic phrase as a provocation to explore the themes of education that run throughout his work-from his response to Wittgenstein, Austin, and ordinary-language philosophy, to his readings of Thoreau and of the moral perfectionism he identifies with Emerson, to his discussions of literature and film. Hilary Putnam has described Cavell as not only one of the most creative thinkers of today but as one of the few contemporary philosophers to explore philosophy as education. Cavell's sustained examination of the nature of philosophy cannot be separated from his preoccupation with what it is to teach and to learn. This is the first book to address theimportance of education in Cavell's work and its essays are framed by two new pieces by Cavell himself.Together these texts combine to show what it means to read Cavell, and simultaneously what it means to read philosophically, in itself a part of our education as grownups.

Stanley Cavell and Philosophy as Translation

Stanley Cavell and Philosophy as Translation
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 206
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ISBN-10 : 9781786602916
ISBN-13 : 1786602911
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Stanley Cavell and Philosophy as Translation by : Paul Standish

Translation exposes aspects of language that can easily be ignored, renewing the sense of the proximity and inseparability of language and thought. The ancient quarrel between philosophy and literature was an early expression of a self-understanding of philosophy that has, in some quarters at least, survived the centuries. This book explores the idea of translation as a philosophical theme and as an important feature of philosophy and practical life, especially in relation to the work of Stanley Cavell. The essays in this volume explore philosophical questions about translation, especially in the light of the work of Stanley Cavell. They take the questions raised by translation to be of key importance not only for philosophical thinking but for our lives as a whole. Thoreau’s enigmatic remark “The truth is translated” reveals that apparently technical matters of translation extend through human lives to remarkable effect, conditioning the ways in which the world comes to light. The experience of the translator exemplifies the challenge of judgement where governing rules and principles are incommensurable; and it shows something of the ways in which words come to us, opening new possibilities of thought. This book puts Cavell’s rich exploration of these matters into conversation with traditions of pragmatism and European thought. Translation, then, far from a merely technical matter, is at work in human being, and it is the means of humanisation. The book brings together philosophers and translators with common interests in Cavell and in the questions of language at the heart of his work.

Contending with Stanley Cavell

Contending with Stanley Cavell
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 216
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ISBN-10 : 9780195346534
ISBN-13 : 019534653X
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis Contending with Stanley Cavell by : Russell B. Goodman

Stanley Cavell has been a brilliant, idiosyncratic, and controversial presence in American philosophy, literary criticism, and cultural studies for years. Even as he continues to produce new writing of a high standard -- an example of which is included in this collection -- his work has elicited responses from a new generation of writers in Europe and America. This 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 transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. The collection also reprints Richard Rorty's early review of Cavell's magnum opus, The Claim of Reason (1979), and it concludes with Cavell's substantial set of responses to the essays, a highlight of which is his engagement with Rorty.

Philosophy in an Age of Science

Philosophy in an Age of Science
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 672
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ISBN-10 : 9780674050136
ISBN-13 : 0674050134
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis Philosophy in an Age of Science by : Hilary Putnam

Hilary Putnam's unceasing self-criticism has led to the frequent changes of mind he is famous for, but his thinking is also marked by considerable continuity. A simultaneous interest in science and ethicsÑunusual in the current climate of contentionÑhas long characterized his thought. In Philosophy in an Age of Science, Putnam collects his papers for publicationÑhis first volume in almost two decades. Mario De Caro and David Macarthur's introduction identifies central themes to help the reader negotiate between Putnam past and Putnam present: his critique of logical positivism; his enduring aspiration to be realist about rational normativity; his anti-essentialism about a range of central philosophical notions; his reconciliation of the scientific worldview and the humanistic tradition; and his movement from reductive scientific naturalism to liberal naturalism. Putnam returns here to some of his first enthusiasms in philosophy, such as logic, mathematics, and quantum mechanics. The reader is given a glimpse, too, of ideas currently in development on the subject of perception. Putnam's work, contributing to a broad range of philosophical inquiry, has been said to represent a Òhistory of recent philosophy in outline.Ó Here it also delineates a possible future.

Inheriting Stanley Cavell

Inheriting Stanley Cavell
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 369
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ISBN-10 : 9781501358197
ISBN-13 : 1501358197
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis Inheriting Stanley Cavell by : David LaRocca

Some of the people who knew Stanley Cavell best--or know his work most intimately--are gathered in Inheriting Stanley Cavell to lend critical insight into the once and future legacy of this American titan of thought. Former students, colleagues, long-time friends, as well as distant admirers, explore moments when their personal experiences of Cavell's singular philosophical and literary illuminations have, as he put it, “risen to the level of philosophical significance.” Many of the memories, dreams, and reflections on offer in this volume carry with them a welcome register of the autobiographical, expressing--much as Cavell did through his own writing--how the personal can become philosophical and thus provide a robust mode for the making of meaning and the clarifying of the human condition. Here, in varied styles and through a range of dynamic content, authors engage the lingering question of inheriting philosophy in whatever form it might take, and what it means to think about inheritance and enact it.

Reading Cavell

Reading Cavell
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 273
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ISBN-10 : 9781134280049
ISBN-13 : 1134280041
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis Reading Cavell by : Alice Crary

Exploring the work of one of the most eminent figures in contemporary philosophy, this compelling account includes contributions from Hilary Putnam, Cora Diamond, Jim Conant and Stephen Mulhall.

Hearing Things

Hearing Things
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 0226305627
ISBN-13 : 9780226305622
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis Hearing Things by : Timothy Gould

What does philosophy have to do with the human voice? Has contemporary philosophy banished the "voice" from the field of legitimate investigation? Timothy Gould examines these questions through the philosopher most responsible for formulating them, Stanley Cavell. Hearing Things is the first work to treat systematically the relation between Cavell's pervasive authorial voice and his equally powerful, though less discernible, impulse to produce a set of usable philosophical methods. Gould argues that a tension between voice and method unites Cavell's broad and often perplexing range of interests. From Wittgenstein to Thoreau, from Shakespeare to the movies, and from opera to Freud, Gould reveals the connection between the voice within Cavell's writing and the voices Cavell appeals to through the methods of ordinary language philosophy. Within Cavell's extraordinary productivity lies a new sense of philosophical method based on elements of the act of reading. Hearing Things is both an important study of Cavell's work and a major contribution to the construction of American philosophy.

The Color of Mind

The Color of Mind
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 209
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ISBN-10 : 9780226525495
ISBN-13 : 022652549X
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis The Color of Mind by : Derrick Darby

“An indispensable text for understanding educational racial injustice and contributing to initiatives to mitigate it.” —Educational Theory American students vary in educational achievement, but white students in general typically have better test scores and grades than black students. Why is this the case, and what can school leaders do about it? In The Color of Mind, Derrick Darby and John L. Rury answer these pressing questions and show that we cannot make further progress in closing the achievement gap until we understand its racist origins. Telling the story of what they call the Color of Mind—the idea that there are racial differences in intelligence, character, and behavior—they show how philosophers, such as David Hume and Immanuel Kant, and American statesman Thomas Jefferson, contributed to the construction of this pernicious idea, how it influenced the nature of schooling and student achievement, and how voices of dissent such as Frederick Douglass, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and W.E.B. Du Bois debunked the Color of Mind and worked to undo its adverse impacts. Rejecting the view that racial differences in educational achievement are a product of innate or cultural differences, Darby and Rury uncover the historical interplay between ideas about race and American schooling, to show clearly that the racial achievement gap has been socially and institutionally constructed. School leaders striving to bring justice and dignity to American schools today must work to root out the systemic manifestations of these ideas within schools, while still doing what they can to mitigate the negative effects of poverty, segregation, inequality, and other external factors that adversely affect student achievement. While we can’t expect schools alone to solve these vexing social problems, we must demand that they address the injustices associated with how we track, discipline, and deal with special education that reinforce long-standing racist ideas. That is the only way to expel the Color of Mind from schools, close the racial achievement gap, and afford all children the dignity they deserve.

The Claim of Reason

The Claim of Reason
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 544
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ISBN-10 : 9780190284930
ISBN-13 : 0190284935
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis The Claim of Reason by : Stanley Cavell

The 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.' In the fourth part the author explores the problem of skepticism and takes a broad view of its consequences.

Cavell's Must We Mean What We Say? at 50

Cavell's Must We Mean What We Say? at 50
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 261
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ISBN-10 : 9781316515259
ISBN-13 : 1316515257
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis Cavell's Must We Mean What We Say? at 50 by : Greg Chase

An accessible investigation of the importance of Cavell's most famous work for modern and contemporary philosophy and literature.