Stanley Cavell and the Education of Grownups /

Stanley Cavell and the Education of Grownups / / ed. by Paul Standish, Naoko Saito.

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What could it mean to speak of philosophy as “the education of grownups”? This book takes Stanley Cavell’s much-"ed, yet enigmatic phrase as the provocation for a series of explorations into themes of education that run throughout his work – through his response to Wittgenstein, Austin and ordi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
MitwirkendeR:
Arcilla, Rene V.,
Bearn, Gordon C. F.,
Cavell, Stanley,
Colapietro, Vincent,
Goodman, Russell B.,
Odin, Steve,
Putnam, Hilary,
Saito, Naoko,
Standish, Paul,
HerausgeberIn:
Saito, Naoko,
Standish, Paul,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]
©2012
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:American Philosophy
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Physical Description:1 online resource (274 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1 Philosophy as the Education of Grownups
  • Part I : Entries in the Education of Grownups
  • 2 The Fact/Value Dichotomy and Its Critics
  • 3 Encountering Cavell: The Education of a Grownup
  • Part II: Skepticism and Language
  • 4 Skepticism, Acknowledgement, and the Ownership of Learning
  • 5 Sensual Schooling: On the Aesthetic Education of Grownups
  • Part III: Moral Perfectionism and Education
  • 6 Voice and the Interrogation of Philosophy: Inheritance, Abandonment, and Jazz
  • 7 Perfectionism’s Educational Address
  • 8 The Gleam of Light: Initiation, Prophesy, and Emersonian Moral Perfectionism
  • 9 The Ordinary as Sublime in Cavell, Zen, and Nishida: Cavell’s Philosophy of Education in East-West Perspective
  • Coda
  • 10 Philosophy as Education
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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