The Claim of Reason Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy
by Cavell, StanleyFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-07-01
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
This handsome new edition of Stanley Cavell's landmark text, first published 20 years ago, provides a new preface that discusses the reception and influence of his work, which occupies a unique niche between philosophy and literary studies.
Author Biography
Stanley Cavell is Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University, Emeritus.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. xv |
| Wittgenstein and the Concept of Human Knowledge | |
| Criteria and Judgment | p. 3 |
| Criteria and Skepticism | p. 37 |
| Austin and Examples | p. 49 |
| What a Thing Is (Called) | p. 65 |
| Natural and Conventional | p. 86 |
| Normal and Natural | p. 111 |
| Skepticism and the Existence of the World | |
| The Quest of Traditional Epistemology: Opening | p. 129 |
| The Reasonableness of Doubt | p. 130 |
| The Appeal to Projective Imagination | p. 145 |
| The Irrelevance of Projective Imagination as Directed Criticism | p. 154 |
| A Further Problem | p. 159 |
| Excursus on Wittgenstein's Vision of Language | p. 168 |
| Learning a Word | p. 169 |
| Projecting a Word | p. 180 |
| The Quest of Traditional Epistemology: Closing | p. 191 |
| The Philosopher's Ground for Doubt Requires Projection | p. 194 |
| The Philosopher's Projection Poses a Dilemma | p. 199 |
| The Philosopher's Basis; and a More Pervasive Conflict with His New Critics | p. 204 |
| The Philosopher's Context Is Non-claim | p. 217 |
| The Philosopher's Conclusion Is Not a Discovery | p. 221 |
| Two Interpretations of Traditional Epistemology; Phenomenology | p. 225 |
| The Knowledge of Existence | p. 231 |
| Knowledge and the Concept of Morality | |
| Knowledge and the Basis of Morality | p. 247 |
| An Absence of Morality | p. 274 |
| Rules and Reasons | p. 292 |
| Promising and Punishing | p. 293 |
| Play and the Moral Life | p. 303 |
| The Autonomy of Morals | p. 313 |
| Skepticism and the Problem of Others | |
| Between Acknowledgment and Avoidance | p. 329 |
| The parable of the boiling not | p. 332 |
| The private language argument | p. 343 |
| The allegory of words; interpretation; seeing something as something | p. 354 |
| Seeing human beings as human beings | p. 370 |
| Embryos | p. 373 |
| Slaves | p. 375 |
| Soul-blindness | p. 378 |
| The human guise | p. 380 |
| Knower and known | p. 382 |
| My relations to myself | p. 384 |
| Believing something and believing someone | p. 390 |
| Believing myself | p. 393 |
| Arguments from analogy and from design | p. 393 |
| Frog body and frog soul | p. 395 |
| Am I, or am I in, my body? Intactness and connection | p. 397 |
| Statues and dolls | p. 401 |
| Perfecting an automaton | p. 403 |
| Feelings and "feelings" | p. 408 |
| The ordonnance of the body; wonder vs. amazement | p. 411 |
| The Polonius of the problem of others | p. 413 |
| The Outsider | p. 416 |
| The concept of horror; of the monstrous | p. 418 |
| The (active) skeptical recital concerning other minds | p. 420 |
| Empathic projection | p. 421 |
| The seamlessness of projection | p. 424 |
| The question of a "best case" for others | p. 429 |
| Confinement and exposure in knowing | p. 432 |
| Unrestricted acknowledgment; the Outcast | p. 435 |
| Toward others we live our skepticism | p. 437 |
| Suspicion of unrestricted owing as pathological, adolescent, or romantic | p. 440 |
| The representative case for other minds is not defined by the generic | p. 442 |
| The passive skeptical recital concerning other minds | p. 443 |
| Skepticism and sanity again? | p. 447 |
| Asymmetries between the two directions of skepticism | p. 451 |
| Dr. Faust and Dr. Frankenstein | p. 456 |
| Passiveness and activeness; the Friend and the Confessor | p. 459 |
| The extraordinariness of the ordinary; romanticism | p. 463 |
| Narcissism | p. 463 |
| Proving the existence of the human | p. 465 |
| The vanishing of the human | p. 468 |
| The question of the history of the problem of others | p. 468 |
| Distinctions of madness | p. 469 |
| The other as replacement of God | p. 470 |
| Blake and the sufficiency of finitude | p. 471 |
| The science and the magic of the human | p. 473 |
| Literature as the knowledge of the Outsider | p. 476 |
| Bibliography | p. 497 |
| Index of Names | p. 503 |
| Index of Passages Cited from Philosophical Investigations | p. 507 |
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