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This is the first book to offer a thorough examination of the
relationship that Stanley Cavell's celebrated philosophical work
has to the ways in which the United States has been imagined and
articulated in its literature. Establishing the contours of
Cavell's most significant readings of American philosophical and
cultural activity, the volume explores how his philosophy and the
kind of reading it demands have an important relation to broader
considerations of the American national imaginary. Focused,
coherent, and original essays from a wide range of philosophers and
critics consider how his investigations of Henry David Thoreau and
Ralph Waldo Emerson, for example, represent a sustained engagement
with the ways in which philosophy might provide us with new ways of
thinking and of living. This is the first detailed and
comprehensive treatment of "America" as a category of enquiry in
Cavell's writing, engaging with the terms of Cavell's various
configurations of the nation and offering readings of American
texts that illustrate the possibilities that Cavell's work has, in
turn, for literary and film criticism. This study of the role
played by philosophy in the articulation of the American
self-imaginary highlights the ways in which the reading of
literature, and the practice of philosophy, are conjoined in the
ethical and political project of national self-definition.
This is the first book to offer a thorough examination of the
relationship that Stanley Cavell's celebrated philosophical work
has to the ways in which the United States has been imagined and
articulated in its literature. Establishing the contours of
Cavell's most significant readings of American philosophical and
cultural activity, the volume explores how his philosophy and the
kind of reading it demands have an important relation to broader
considerations of the American national imaginary. Focused,
coherent, and original essays from a wide range of philosophers and
critics consider how his investigations of Henry David Thoreau and
Ralph Waldo Emerson, for example, represent a sustained engagement
with the ways in which philosophy might provide us with new ways of
thinking and of living. This is the first detailed and
comprehensive treatment of "America" as a category of enquiry in
Cavell's writing, engaging with the terms of Cavell's various
configurations of the nation and offering readings of American
texts that illustrate the possibilities that Cavell's work has, in
turn, for literary and film criticism. This study of the role
played by philosophy in the articulation of the American
self-imaginary highlights the ways in which the reading of
literature, and the practice of philosophy, are conjoined in the
ethical and political project of national self-definition.
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