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Stanley Cavell and the Education of Grownups (Paperback)
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Stanley Cavell and the Education of Grownups (Paperback)
Series: American Philosophy
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What could it mean to speak of philosophy as "the education of
grownups"? This book takes Stanley Cavell's much-quoted, yet
enigmatic phrase as the provocation for a series of explorations
into themes of education that run throughout his work - through his
response to Wittgenstein, Austin and ordinary language philosophy,
through his readings of Thoreau and of the moral perfectionism he
identifies with Emerson, through his discussions of literature and
film. Hilary Putnam has described Cavell not only as one of the
most creative thinkers of today but as amongst the few contemporary
philosophers to explore the territory of philosophy as education.
Yet in mainstream philosophy his work is apt to be referred to
rather than engaged with, and the full import of his writings for
education is still to be appreciated. Cavell engages in a sustained
exploration of the nature of philosophy, and this is not separable
from his preoccupation with what it is to teach and to learn, with
the kinds of transformation these might imply, and with the
significance of these things for our language and politics, for our
lives as a whole. In recent years Cavell's work has been the
subject of a number of books of essays, but this is the first to
address directly the importance of education in his work. Such
matters cannot fail to be of significance not only for the
disciplinary fields of philosophy and education, but in politics,
literature, and film studies - and in the humanities as a whole. A
substantial introduction provides an overview of the philosophical
purchase of questions of education in his work, while the essays
are framed by two new pieces by Cavell himself. The book shows what
it means to read Cavell, and simultaneously what it means to read
philosophically, in itself a part of our education as grownups.
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