Literature as ethics: Stanley Cavell, Robert Musil, and the scope of moral perfectionism

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  • Mette Blok

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7146/rc.13104627

Resumé

“But can philosophy become literature and still know itself?” With this pointed question the American philosopher Stanley Cavell famously ended his monumental work The Claim of Reason (1979), thereby expressing his vision for the relation between philosophy and literature.

Referencer

Booth, Wayne C.: The Company We Keep. An Ethics of Fiction, University of California Press, Berkeley 1988

Cavell, Stanley: Must We Mean What We Say? A Book of Essays, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2002

Cavell, Stanley: The Claim of Reason. Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1979

Cavell, Stanley: Pursuits of Happiness. The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage, Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1981

Cavell, Stanley: Disowning Knowledge. In Six Plays of Shakespeare, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1987

Cavell, Stanley: In Quest of the Ordinary. Lines of Skepticism and Romanticism, University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1988

Cavell, Stanley: Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome. The Constitution of Emersonian Perfectionism, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1990

Cavell, Stanley: Cities of Words. Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life, Harvard University Press, Cambridge 2004

Cavell, Stanley: Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow, Harvard University Press, Cambridge 2005

Eldridge, Richard and Rhie, Bernard (eds.): Stanley Cavell and Literary Studies. Consequences of Skepticism, Continuum, New York 2011

Goodman, Russell B. (ed.): Contending with Stanley Cavell, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2005

Ibsen, Henrik: A Doll’s House, in The Complete Major Prose Plays, trans. Rolf Fjelde, Plume Books, New York 1978

Musil, Robert: The Man without Qualities, trans. Sophie Wilkins, Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1995

Nussbaum, Martha: Love’s Knowledge. Essays on Philosophy and Literature, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1990

Rorty, Richard: Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1989

Taylor, Andrew and Kelly, Áine (eds.): Stanley Cavell, Literature, and Film. The Idea of America, Routledge, New York 2013

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2018-03-22

Citation/Eksport

Blok, M. (2018). Literature as ethics: Stanley Cavell, Robert Musil, and the scope of moral perfectionism. Res Cogitans, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.7146/rc.13104627