Stanley Cavell on aesthetic understanding. (2018)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Stanley Cavell on aesthetic understanding. (2018)
- Main Title:
- Stanley Cavell on aesthetic understanding
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Garry L. Hagberg.
- Editors:
- Hagberg, Garry, 1952-
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction;Garry L. Hagberg.-Part I: Understanding Persons Through Film.- 2. I Want to Know More About You: On Knowing and Acknowledging in Chinatown;Francey Russell.- 3. Other Minds and Unknown Women: The Case of Gaslight;Jay R.Elliott.-4. The Melodrama of the Unknown Man;Peter Dula.-Part II: Shakespeare, Opera, and Philosophical Interpretation.-5. Cordelia's Moral Incapacity in King LearDavid Anthony Holiday.- 6. Disowning Certainty: Tragic and Comic Skepticism in Cavell, Montaigne, andShakespeare;Stan Benfell.-7. Must We Mean What We Sing?: Cosi fan tutte and the Lease of Voice;Ian Ground.- Part III: Aesthetic Understanding and Moral Life.-8. What Matters: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Importance;Sandra Laugier.-9. Achilles' Tears: Cavell, the Iliad, and Possibilities for the Human;David LaRocca.-10. Wittgenstein 'in the midst of' Life, Death, Sanity, Madness - and Mathematics:Cavellian Themes;Richard McDonough.-Part IV: Reading Fiction and Literary Understanding.- 11. Fraudulence, Knowledge, and Post-Imperial Geographies in John Le Carré's Fiction:A Cavellian Postcolonial Reading;Alan Johnson.-12. Must We Do What We Say? The Plight of Marriage and Conversation in GeorgeMeredith's The Egoist;Erin Greer.-13. Within the Words of Henry James: Cavell as Austinian Reader;Garry L. Hagberg.- Index.
- Publisher Details:
- Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
- Subjects:
- 191
Aesthetics - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9783319974668
- Related ISBNs:
- 9783319974651
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- Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.352413
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