Stanley Cavell on aesthetic understanding. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• 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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