Stanley Cavell, Literature, and Film

The Idea of America
Herausgeber: Kelly, Áine; Taylor, Andrew

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a thorough examination of the relationship that Stanley Cavell's celebrated philosophical work has to the ways in which the United States has been imagined and articulated in its literature, highlighting how literature and philosophy are conjoined in the ethical and political project of national self-definition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9781138107991
• ISBN-10: 1138107999
• Artikelnr.: 57041766

Autorenporträt

Andrew Taylor is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Áine Kelly is an IRCHSS Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Philosophy at University College Dublin, Ireland.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Acknowledging Stanley Cavell: Paradox, Poiesis and Philosophy in America
Olaf Hansen 2. Reading Cavell Reading David LaRocca 3. Stanley Cavell,
"Aversive Thinking," and Emerson's "Party of the Future" David M. Robinson
4. Self-Relayance: Emerson to Poe Garrett Stewart 5. The Haunting of
History: Emerson, James, and the Ghosts of Human Suffering Kristin Boudreau
6. Philosophy Out of Earshot of the School: Tocqueville and the "American
Philosophical Method" Oisín Eoin Keohane 7. Attachment and Detachment in
Cavell and Santayana Paul Jenner 8. Agee after Cavell, Cavell after Agee
Paul Anderson 9. "A Dance of Frenzy, A Dance of Praise": Fred Astaire
Acknowledges America Áine Kelly 10. Cavell, Thoreau, and the Movies Robert
B. Ray 11. Embodying an American Union: Cavell's Conjugal and
Conversational Ties Andrew Taylor 12. The Experience of the Movies:
Cavell's Hollywood and Robert Warshow Rachel Malkin 13. Emersonian
Affinities: Reading Richard Ford through Stanley Cavell Lawrence Rhu