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By Stanley Cavell

ISBN-10: 0226097889

ISBN-13: 9780226097886

ISBN-10: 0865471460

ISBN-13: 9780865471467

In the 1st essay of this publication, Stanley Cavell characterizes philosophy as a "willingness to imagine no longer approximately whatever except what usual humans take into consideration, yet particularly to benefit to imagine undistractedly approximately issues that normal people can't aid pondering, or besides can't support having ensue to them, occasionally in fable, occasionally as a flash throughout a landscape."

Fantasies of movie and tv and literature, flashes around the panorama of literary concept, philosophical discourse, and French historiography supply Cavell his beginning issues in those twelve essays. here's philosophy out and in of "school," understood as a self-discipline in itself or suggestion during the works of Shakespeare, Molière, Kierkegaard, Thoreau, Brecht, Makavejev, Bergman, Hitchcock, Astaire, and Keaton.

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