Andrew Norris

Becoming Who We Are

Politics and Practical Philosophy in the Work of Stanley Cavell

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Produktbeschreibung

Becoming Who We Are clarifies the political and existential aspects of Stanley Cavell's understanding of ordinary language and of skepticism, and shows the close connection between his reception of Kant, Heidegger, and Austin and his exploration of what Emersonian Perfectionism offers to democracy and modern life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780190673949
• ISBN-10: 019067394X
• Artikelnr.: 47869765

Autorenporträt

Andrew Norris teaches political philosophy at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the editor of Truth and Democracy (University of Pennsylvania, 2012), The Claim to Community: Essays on Stanley Cavell and Political Philosophy (Stanford, 2006), and Politics, Metaphysics, and Death: Essays on Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer (Duke, 2005), and the author of over thirty peer-reviewed articles on authors such as Wittgenstein, Hegel, Hannah Arendt, and Michael Oakeshott.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Ordinary Language and Philosophical Conversion
Chapter Two: Skepticism and Transcendence
Chapter Three: Community and Voice
Chapter Four: Walden and the Foundations of True Political Expression
Chapter Five: Receiving Autonomy
Bibliography
Index