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The Sound of Bedrock: Lines of Grammar Between Kant, Wittgenstein, and Cavell
This chapter, which takes its bearing from Stanley Cavell’s ‘Aesthetic Problems of Modern Philosophy’, continues the work of ‘What’s the Point of...
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Scepticism, Anti-scepticism, and Santayana’s Singularity
Considering Santayana’s treatment of scepticism in relation to Descartes and Hume, as well as twentieth-century philosophers such as Wittgenstein,...
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Inner and Outer: From Skepticism to Understanding
When we try to make sense of other people, it is natural to describe them as having an outer face that they present to the world and a distinct inner...
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Emerson and Žižek: On the Crack in Everything, or, the Dialectical Nature of Philosophy and the World
Emerson says, “There is a crack in everything,” and then Žižek, more than a century and a half later, refers to “the crack in the positive order of...
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Philosophy of the People
In this chapter I consider Emerson as a “philosopher of democracy,” as John Dewey called him. I begin by considering some journal passages that...
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The Ordinary Global
In this paper, I confront various conceptions of meaning and articulate them to anthropological styles of thought: W.V. Quine’s thesis of the...
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Introduction: Who Is Speaking and to Whom?
In this introduction chapter I begin by considering Stanley Cavell’s claim that there is an internal connection between philosophy and autobiography,...
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A Proposal: Learning to Perceive
Is it yes? Or is it no? Does a sheep on a tiny planet eat the love of the life of the Little Prince of Asteroid B-612?Various elements of this book...
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Emerson and Irigaray: The Sorites of Ethical Difference
In this chapter I consider some parts of Irigaray’s text An Ethics of Sexual Difference and contrast what she says with a passage from Emerson’s...
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“Try to Be Loved & Not-Admired”: Lily Bart’s Moral Struggle
This chapter examines the tension between admiration and love in the domain of personal relationships from the perspective of the person who is...
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Himmler, Himmler’s Canary, and Us
Talking frankly and bravely about cruelty and about our claim that we can be inhuman when we are cruel invites scenes, scenarios, and rationales that...
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Literary Méditations Hégéliennes
The next chapter develops the previous case for postructuralism by contending that the work of W.V.O Quine, and in particular, Donald Davidson, have...
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Epilogue
This Epilogue considers the categorial status of ‘individuality,' and how it compares with syllogistic logic of universal, particular, or singular....
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Wittgenstein and What We Can Say
As Williams Williams, Bernard has noted, first-person-plural statements are conspicuously frequent in Wittgenstein’s later writings. The types of...
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Postmodern Emerson
I explain what I understand the term ‘postmodern’ to mean, and how I propose to use the term in relation to Emerson. I adduce Richard Rorty, Slavoj...
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Fumbling Toward the Animal in “Animal Faith”
Padrón focuses our attention on the animality in SAF. He shows how the fact that we are descended from other animals with similar capacities is...
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Pädagothic als Bildung in Endlichkeitskompetenz oder: Was wir von Horrorgeschichten über uns selbst lernen können
Auf den ersten Blick scheinen Horrorgeschichten nicht der Stoff zu sein, aus dem bildungsphilosophische Träume gemacht sind. Wenn schon an Träume,...
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Photography as a Graphic Fine Art
Photography has had no trouble swee** the modern world as a mass instrument of public and private reportage and memorialization, but it has never...
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Material
Der Begriff des Materials ist vielleicht nicht der offensichtlichste Kandidat als Ansatzpunkt für eine Theorie, die sich diesseits von Kunst und...