The Claim of Reason
Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy
1st Edition
Published on 1. July 1999
538 pages
978-0-19-534404-2 (ISBN)
Description
This handsome new edition of Stanley Cavell's landmark text, first published 20 years ago, provides a new preface that discusses the reception and influence of his work, which occupies a unique niche between philosophy and literary studies.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface for the new paperback edition
- Foreword
- PART ONE: Wittgenstein and the Concept of Human Knowledge
- I: Criteria and Judgment
- II: Criteria and Skepticism
- III: Austin and Examples
- IV: What a Thing Is (Called)
- V: Natural and Conventional
- Normal and Natural
- PART TWO: Skepticism and the Existence of the World
- VI: The Quest of Traditional Epistemology: Opening
- The Reasonableness of Doubt
- The Appeal to Projective Imagination
- The Irrelevance of Projective Imagination as Directed Criticism
- A Further Problem
- VII: Excursus on Wittgenstein's Vision of Language
- Learning a Word
- Projecting a Word
- VIII: The Quest of Traditional Epistemology: Closing
- The Philosopher's Ground for Doubt Requires Projection
- The Philosopher's Projection Poses a Dilemma
- The Philosopher's Basis
- and a More Pervasive Conflict with His New Critics
- The Philosopher's Context Is Non-claim
- The Philosopher's Conclusion Is Not a Discovery
- Two Interpretations of Traditional Epistemology
- Phenomenology
- The Knowledge of Existence
- PART THREE: Knowledge and the Concept of Morality
- IX: Knowledge and the Basis of Morality
- X: An Absence of Morality
- XI: Rules and Reasons
- Promising and Punishing
- Play and the Moral Life
- XII: The Autonomy of Morals
- PART FOUR: Skepticism and the Problem of Others
- XIII: Between Acknowledgment and Avoidance
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- W
- Y
- Z
- Index of Passages Cited from Philosophical Investigations
