The Claim of Reason

Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-19-513107-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 544 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 867 g

This reissue of an American philosophical classic includes a new preface by Cavell, in which he discusses the work's reception and influence. The work fosters a fascinating relationship between philosophy and literature both by augmenting his philosophical discussions with examples from literature and by applying philosophical theories to literary texts. Cavell also succeeds in drawing some very important parallels between the British analytic tradition and the continental tradition, by comparing scepticism as understood in Descartes, Hume, and Kant with philosophy of language as practiced by Wittgenstein and Austin.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cavell, Stanley

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- PART ONE

- Wittgenstein and the Concept of Human Knowledge

- I: Criteria and Judgment

- II: Criteria and Skepticism

- III: Austin and Examples

- IV: What a Think Is (Called)

- V: Natural and Conventional

- PART TWO

- Skepticism and the Existence of the World

- VI: The Quest of Traditional Epistemology: Opening

- VII: Excursus on Wittgenstein's Vision of Language

- VIII: The Quest of Traditional Epistemology: Closing

- PART THREE

- Knowledge and the concept of Morality

- IX: Knowledge and the Basis of Morality

- X: An Absence of Morality

- XI: Rules and Reasons

- XII: The Autonomy of Morals

- PART FOUR

- Skepticism and the Problem of Others

- XIII: Between Acknowledgment and Avoidance