Stanley Cavell
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In the first essay of this book, Stanley Cavell characterizes philosophy as a "willingness to think not about something other than what ordinary human beings think about, but rather to learn to think undistractedly about things that ordinary human beings cannot help thinking about, or anyway cannot help having occur to them, sometimes in fantasy, sometimes as a flash across a landscape."
Fantasies of film and television and literature, flashes across...
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Según mi manera de pensar, es como si el cine hubiera sido creado para la filosofía -para reconducir todo lo que la filosofía ha dicho sobre la realidad y su representación, sobre el arte y la imitación, sobre la grandeza y el convencionalismo, sobre el juicio y el placer, sobre el escepticismo y la trascendencia, sobre el lenguaje y la expresión.
Cavell entiende la filosofía como un ejercicio de superación del escepticismo a través de la...
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Stanley Cavell is a titan of the academic world; his work in aesthetics and philosophy has shaped both fields in the United States over the past forty years. In this brief yet enlightening collection of lectures, Cavell investigates the work of two of his most tried-and-true subjects: Emerson and Wittgenstein. Beginning with an introductory essay that places his own work in a philosophical and historical context, Cavell guides his reader through his...
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