This book is an invitation to the life of philosophy in the United States, as Emerson once lived it and as Stanley Cavell now lives it—in all its topographical ambiguity. Cavell talks about his vocation in connection with what he calls voice—the tone of philosophy—and his right to take that tone, and to describe an anecdotal journey toward the discovery of his own voice.
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A Pitch of Philosophy: Autobiographical Exercises
This book is an invitation to the life of philosophy in the United States, as Emerson once lived it and as Stanley Cavell now lives it—in all its topographical ambiguity. Cavell talks about his vocation in connection with what he calls voice—the tone of philosophy—and his right to take that tone, and to describe an anecdotal journey toward the discovery of his own voice.
This book is an invitation to the life of philosophy in the United States, as Emerson once lived it and as Stanley Cavell now lives it—in all its topographical ambiguity. Cavell talks about his vocation in connection with what he calls voice—the tone of philosophy—and his right to take that tone, and to describe an anecdotal journey toward the discovery of his own voice.
Stanley Cavell is Walter M. Cabot Professor, Emeritus, of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Harvard University.
Table of Contents
Contents Overture 1. Philosophy and the Arrogation of Voice 2. Counter-Philosophy and the Pawn of Voice The Metaphysical Voice Worlds of Philosophical Difference Pictures of Destruction Derrida's Austin and the Stake of Positivism Exclusion of the Theory of Excuses: On the Tragic Exclusion of the Theory of the Non-Serious Skepticism and the Serious Two Pictures of Communication: Assigning What (Thing) Is Transmitted? Austin Moves Two Pictures of Language in Relation to (the) World Three Pictures of My Attachment to My Words: Signing 3. Opera and the Lease of Voice Bibliography Acknowledgments Subject Index Name Index