A Pitch of Philosophy: Autobiographical ExercisesHarvard University Press, 1996 - 196 頁 Annotation 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 Cavell now lives it - in all its topographical ambiguity. Cavell talks about his vocation in connection with what he calls voice - the tone of philosophy - and his right to take that tone, and to describe an anecdotal journey toward the discovery of his own voice. Cavell asks how the voice of philosophy can be heard amid the commerce of everyday life. His autobiographical exercises begin at home with his parents, his father an accidental pawnbroker and accomplished raconteur, his mother a trained and talented musician. In the course of showing us his certain steps in the discovery of his trade, he conveys the sense of what it means to learn to walk on one's own, with a Thoreauvian deliberateness. He pays suitableattention to a serious ally and antagonist to the task of philosophy as he understands it, namely, Jacques Derrida - yet Derrida has mounted a full-scale attack on "voice" and other concepts that Cavell has held open for much of a lifetime. The chapters are interwoven with intense family reminiscences in Cavell's discovery of J.L. Austin, his understanding of Wittgenstein, his raising of Emerson to the philosophical canon, his fascination with film (images of women in a medium for women), the revelation that film and opera are the media of otherness for women. And the voice at the end: hearing in himself the voice of his mother, which is music. Complex, sentimental, witty, A Pitch ofPhilosophy is for anyone who cares to take on philosophy, under whatever name it goes |
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第 1 到 5 筆結果,共 51 筆
第 vii 頁
... Emerson , that " the deeper the scholar dives into his privatest , secretest presentiment , to his wonder he finds this is the most acceptable , most public , and universally true . " Put otherwise , it is an education that prepares the ...
... Emerson , that " the deeper the scholar dives into his privatest , secretest presentiment , to his wonder he finds this is the most acceptable , most public , and universally true . " Put otherwise , it is an education that prepares the ...
第 ix 頁
Autobiographical Exercises Stanley Cavell. with Maeterlinck's particular devotion to the writing of Ralph Waldo Emerson . What are here called chapters were , even before the elaborations that came with editing , considerably longer than ...
Autobiographical Exercises Stanley Cavell. with Maeterlinck's particular devotion to the writing of Ralph Waldo Emerson . What are here called chapters were , even before the elaborations that came with editing , considerably longer than ...
第 x 頁
... Emerson and of Thoreau ; that resonance in their writing should be audible in Jerusalem more practically than in any other city I had spoken in , verging East and West . Without knowing much , one could know that Scholem had devoted his ...
... Emerson and of Thoreau ; that resonance in their writing should be audible in Jerusalem more practically than in any other city I had spoken in , verging East and West . Without knowing much , one could know that Scholem had devoted his ...
第 xi 頁
... Emerson behind Whitman , or find the link worth noting , is an interesting question , too interesting , and too pertinent to old interests of mine , for me to forgo making one guess now . A few pages earlier Scholem had been asked about ...
... Emerson behind Whitman , or find the link worth noting , is an interesting question , too interesting , and too pertinent to old interests of mine , for me to forgo making one guess now . A few pages earlier Scholem had been asked about ...
第 xii 頁
... Emerson as something like the facilitator and intellectualizer of this role . So Rolland continues the reception of Emerson — however discontinuous Rolland's interest is from that of Emerson's more conventional readers — in a mode of ...
... Emerson as something like the facilitator and intellectualizer of this role . So Rolland continues the reception of Emerson — however discontinuous Rolland's interest is from that of Emerson's more conventional readers — in a mode of ...
內容
Philosophy and the Arrogation of Voice | 1 |
CounterPhilosophy and the Pawn of Voice | 53 |
The Metaphysical Voice | 59 |
Worlds of Philosophical Difference | 67 |
Pictures of Destruction | 75 |
Derridas Austin and the Stake of Positivism | 77 |
On the Tragic | 86 |
Exclusion of the Theory of the NonSerious | 88 |
What Thing Is Transmitted? Austin Moves | 106 |
Two Pictures of Language in Relation to the World | 112 |
Signing | 116 |
Opera and the Lease of Voice | 127 |
Bibliography | 169 |
177 | |
Subject Index | 189 |
192 | |
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