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Title: The Senses of Walden: An Expanded Edition by Stanley Cavell ISBN: 0-226-09813-3 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Cavell's reclaiming of Thoreau and Emerson as philosophers.
Comment: More than a discrete work of literary criticism, this work plays an important part in Cavell's ongoing philosophical project. If Cavell's earlier work had Wittgenstein and Austin as involving a modernist break with the dominant Anglo-American philosophical tradition of positivism, then this work exemplified how analytical philosophy might continue. Cavell finds in the word conscious text of 'Walden' a linguistic economy complimentary to the idea of a logic or necessity to ordinary language. The American Transcendentalists are recast as philosophers who anticipate the turn away from metaphysics to the ordinary and everyday to be found in Wittgenstein. At the same time, as newly recovered American philosophers, they rehearse an encounter between English (empiricist) and German (idealist) philosophy before the split between these strands became institutionalized. 'The Senses of Walden,' then, is a key philosophical text by Cavell as much as a work of literary criticism on Thoreau. It is the text of a philosopher unable to completely give up an analytical training, but equally unwilling to ignore the broader cultural issues that such training obscures. Paul Jenner, University of Nottingham.
Rating: 5
Summary: on the senses of reading
Comment: This is Professor Cavell's loving reading of Thoreau's "Walden." I was struck by his accounting of Thoreau's daily means. There is even the general ledger that Thoreau made of his financial bearings. To live so simply in a gentle world is a scholar's dream.
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Title: Emerson's Transcendental Etudes by Stanley Cavell, David Justin Hodge ISBN: 0804745439 Publisher: Stanford University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome: The Constitution of Emersonian Perfectionism (PAUL CARUS LECTURES) by Stanley Cavell ISBN: 0226098214 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1991 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: This New Yet Unapproachable America: Lectures After Emerson After Wittgenstein (Frederick Ives Carpenter Lectures, 1987.) by Stanley Cavell ISBN: 0945953003 Publisher: Living Batch Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1989 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Must We Mean What We Say? : A Book of Essays by Stanley Cavell ISBN: 0521529190 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 04 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Disowning Knowledge : In Seven Plays of Shakespeare by Stanley Cavell ISBN: 0521529204 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 31 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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