A pitch of philosophy : autobiographical exercises
This book is an invitation to the life of philosophy in the United States, as Emerson once lived it and as Stanley Cavell now lives it—in all its topographical ambiguity.
xv, 196 pages ; 22 cm
9780674669819, 0674669819
1193474457
Overture 1. Philosophy and the Arrogation of Voice 2. Counter-Philosophy and the Pawn of Voice The Metaphysical Voice Worlds of Philosophical Difference Pictures of Destruction Derrida's Austin and the Stake of Positivism Exclusion of the Theory of Excuses: On the Tragic Exclusion of the Theory of the Non-Serious Skepticism and the Serious Two Pictures of Communication: Assigning What (Thing) Is Transmitted? Austin Moves Two Pictures of Language in Relation to (the) World Three Pictures of My Attachment to My Words: Signing Opera and the Lease of Voice Bibliography Acknowledgments Subject Index Name Index