Stanley Cavell and the Education of Grownups

Book Overview

What could it mean to speak of philosophy as the education of grownups? This book takes Stanley Cavell's much-quoted, yet enigmatic phrase as the provocation for a series of explorations into themes of education that run throughout his work - through his response to Wittgenstein, Austin and ordinary language philosophy, through his readings of Thoreau and of the moral perfectionism he identifies with Emerson, through his discussions of literature...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823234746
• ISBN13: 9780823234745
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"