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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Stanley Cavell"”.
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Moral perfectionism, infinite responsibility, and the ethical in critical race theory
… contributions of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stanley Cavell, Michel Foucault, and Emmanuel Levinas regarding ethics and the ethical, and I argue that all four thinkers fall under the broad classification of moral perfectionist thought, albeit with distinct core assumptions and approaches. This …
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A reader-response approach to Susan Sontag's Death Kit
… I~d had a graduate seminar in the work of Stanley Cavell whose critical approach is certainly reader-based. I had also been impressed, and I think influenced, by Jean-Paul Sartre~s essay "Why Write?", which is concerned with the writer~s relationship to the reader, from the writer~s point …
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Augustine and the Limits of Memory: Augustine’s Account of Memory and its Contemporary Theological and Ethical Significance
… responsibility, and hope amidst what Stanley Cavell calls the separateness of our human condition.
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Science, the Self, and Skepticism: Posthuman Fictions of Post-1960s France
… of these posthuman pictures of the self to what Stanley Cavell, following Ludwig Wittgenstein, calls skepticism: the desire, both natural and unnatural, to deny and transcend the human and its conditions of sense-making. It asks whether these skeptical visions of the human self can be lived and …
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The Difficulty of Homecoming: Film and Philosophy through Monster, A Hidden Life, and Mountains May Depart
… such as Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Stanley Cavell, Rowan Williams, and Gillian Rose. I begin by introducing the question of homecoming through Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984), characterising it as an inquiry into tragedy. I contend that the tragic dimension of homecoming, along with …
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Around Talk: Affect, Triviality, and Possibility in Marcel Proust, Henry James, and Nella Larsen
… and feeling: the ordinary language philosophy of Stanley Cavell, the weak affect theories of Silvan Tomkins and Eve Sedgwick, the suspensive intimacies of Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips. In a series of case studies from my three authors, the chapters of this thesis explore the uncertain …
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The Spirit of Exemplarity: The Role of Example in Lyric Studies
… example. Turning to Ludwig Wittgenstein and Stanley Cavell, I describe an alternative mode of exemplarity which, as Toril Moi attests, is now largely absent from the discipline of literary studies. The argument for a practice of exemplification in lyric criticism which attends to individual …
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Counterfactual Thinking and Shakespearean Tragedy: Imagining Alternatives in the Plays
This dissertation is the application of counterfactual criticism to Shakespearean tragedy—supposing we are to ask, for example, “what if” Hamlet had done the deed, or, “what if” we could somehow disinherit our knowledge of Lear’s madness before reading King Lear. Such readings, mirroring critical …