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Stanley Cavell
ISBN: 9780674022324
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Edition: New edition
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Nietzsche characterised the philosopher as the man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow - a description befitting Stanley Cavell, with his long-time interest in freedom in the face of an uncertain future. This volume is a collection of essays on performative language and on performances in which the question of freedom is the underlying concern.
Nietzsche characterised the philosopher as the man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow - a description befitting Stanley Cavell, with his long-time interest in freedom in the face of an uncertain future. This interest, particularly in the role of language in freedom of the will, is fully engaged in this volume, a collection of retrospective and forward-thinking essays on performative language and on performances in which the question of freedom is the underlying concern.
| ISBN | 0674022327 | | Pages | 328 | | ISBN13 | 9780674022324
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Harvard University Press | | Weight (grammes) | 406 | | Imprint | The Belknap Press | | Published in | Cambridge, Mass. | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 209 | | Publication date | 31 Oct 2006 | | Width (mm) | 143 | | DEWEY | 191 | | Spine width (mm) | 22 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly |
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"Stanley Cavell has been a major figure not only as an academic philosopher at Harvard, but also as an educator to those of us who would read modern philosophy if only it were readable. He has a seductively conversational tone, and I am an addict of his essays. A new volume, Philosophy the Day After Tomorrow, does not disappoint. Who but Cavell could begin an essay with Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy and end it with an analysis of Fred Astaire? There are good thoughts on Shakespeare, Henry James, Wittgenstein and, of course, Heidegger. Cavell is one of Heidegger's most intelligible interpreters." - A. N. Wilson, Times Literary Supplement"  Be the first to write a customer review
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