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Im-Provisatorisches Leben. Zum prekären Verhältnis von Form und Prozesshaftigkeit bei Stanley Cavell
Der Artikel widmet sich auf der Grundlage von Szenen aus Stanley Cavells Autobiographie Little did I know. Excerpts from Memory (2010) einer...
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Benjamin/Schlegel: Cavell/Wittgenstein
In this chapter I look at two receptions of ideas from German Idealism developed in the Athenaeum circle around Friedrich Schlegel: Walter Benjamin’s...
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Conclusion: A Brief Reading of “Fate”: Thinking about “Fate” after Cavell, Bloom, and Rorty
Cavell, Bloom, and Rorty are ‘strong’ readers of Emerson. By ‘strong’ I mean both powerful readers of Emerson, readers that make Emerson extremely...
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The Sceptic, The Outsider, and Other Minds
The usual way with scepticism is to formulate a problem in connection with the external world and then apply this to other minds. Drawing on work by...
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Introduction: Philosophy as Thinking
I argue that in Emerson’s essays Emerson does not just reveal the fruits of his thinking but actually engages in thinking in the writing of the...
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The Capability of The Ordinary
There is a significant moment of convergence in the philosophies of Gert Biesta, Stanley Cavell and Nel Noddings. All three call on us to live...
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“Now I Can Go On!”: The Collapse of Linguistic Authority in Beckett’s Endgame
This article argues that Stanley Cavell, in his reading of Beckett’s Endgame, overlooks a crucial dimension of the play’s language, and it supports...
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Plights of Mind and Circumstance: Cavell and Wallace on Scepticism
My chapter argues that Stanley Cavell’s work on Wittgenstein and on scepticism provides fresh perspectives on the preoccupation with interiority...
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Voice and the Mentorship Relation
This chapter will explore Voice as a central theme in initial teacher education, and look particularly at the role of mentor relationships in the...
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Introduction
To be capable of The Ordinary, in all its complexity and hope, is the great and persistent challenge of an educator’s career. How can student...
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What Comes After Postcolonial Theory?
This essay explores possible paths after postcolonial theory, with the after understood not as a negation, but as a form of inheritance and the...
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Phrónēsis in Literary Criticism—The Pragmatic Denouement
The penultimate chapter gathers together the arguments previously adumbrated about the dovetailing of literary criticism and philosophy, while also...
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Moral Philosophy, Moralism, and the Socialist Imagination
This chapter examines the relationship between moral philosophy and moralism. While Murdoch’s contemporaries saw linguistic analysis as a way to...
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Emerson as Philosopher
Cavell argues that we should read Emerson as a philosopher. I agree. Much of the excellent work on Emerson is done by people in English departments....
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The Educator and The Ordinary A Philosophical Approach to Initial Teacher Education
This book creates a unique discursive environment to consider how initial teacher education can support student teachers in practical and personal...
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Ethics in Scenes of Disaster
This chapter delves into scenes of disaster as crucial sites to explore the role of forms of life and the ordinary. The habitual and ordinary have...
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Ethical Inquiries After Wittgenstein: Introduction
This introduction gives a brief orientation in current literature on Wittgenstein and ethics, and situates the present volume in the rich tradition...
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Stanley Cavell: What Becomes of People on Film?
Stanley Cavell’s “ontology of film” is his way of expressing that in our experience of movies, we are both aware that we are perceiving nothing but...
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On ‘Individuality’
‘On ‘Individuality,’ is introductory, starting with an outline of my general argument: (1) Hegel engages with a historically important conversation...
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Husserl’s Idealism in the Kaizo Articles and Its Relation to Contemporary Moral Perfectionism
Husserl declares that his phenomenological philosophy is a transcendental idealism. This philosophical stance can be differentiated into two forms,...