A pitch of philosophy : autobiographical exercises /

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"What is the pitch of philosophy? Something thrown, for us to catch? A lurch, meant to unsettle us? The relative position of a tone on a scale? A speech designed to persuade? This book is an invitation to the life of philosophy in the United States, as Emerson once lived it and as Stanley Cavel...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cavell, Stanley, 1926-2018
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1994.
Series:Jerusalem-Harvard lectures.
Subjects:
Cavell, Stanley, > 1926-2018.
Cavell, Stanley, > 1926-2018
Philosophy.
Philosophy, American.
Philosophy
Philosophie.
Philosophie américaine.
philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
MEDICAL > Surgery > General.
Philosophy, American
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Overture
  • 1. Philosophy and the Arrogation of Voice
  • 2. Counter-Philosophy and the Pawn of Voice
  • The Metaphysical Voice
  • Worlds of Philosophical Difference
  • Pictures of Destruction
  • Derridaâ€?s Austin and the Stake of Positivism
  • Exclusion of the Theory of Excuses: On the Tragic
  • Exclusion of the Theory of the Non-Serious
  • Skepticism and the Serious
  • Two Pictures of Communication: Assigning
  • What (Thing) Is Transmitted? Austin Moves
  • Two Pictures of Language in Relation to (the) World
  • Three Pictures of My Attachment to My Words: Signing3. Opera and the Lease of Voice
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Subject Index
  • Name Index

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