Understanding Cavell, Understanding Modernism -

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Contributors
Introduction: Stanley Cavell and the Quest of a Voice of One's Own for Philosophy (Paola Marrati, Johns Hopkins University, USA)

Part 1 Conceptualizing Cavell
1. Must We Mean What We Say? and the (Re)Birth of Ordinary Language Philosophy (Sandra Laugier, Universit? Paris 1 Panth?on Sorbonne, France)
2. Modernism in The World Viewed (Hugo Cl?mot, Universit? de Tours, France and Universit? Paris 1 Panth?on Sorbonne, France)
3. Senses of Walden: Thoreau's Exemplary Act (Paul Standish, University College London, UK)
4. The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy (Paola Marrati, Johns Hopkins University, USA)
5. Democracy as a Way of Life and An-archic Perfectionism: Rereading Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome (Naoko Saito, University of Kyoto, Japan)

Part 2 Cavell and Aesthetics
6. In Quest of the Ordinary: Philosophy, Literature and the Romantic Response (Andrew Brandel, Harvard University, USA)
7. Measuring the Value of Human Life According to a Perfectionist Philosopher: A reading of Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life (David LaRocca, Harvard University, USA)
8. Modernism: Notes toward a Philosophical Approach (Piergiorgio Donatelli, Sapienza Universit? di Roma, Italy)
9. Modernism and Film at Criticism: Rethinking the Aesthetic Possibilities of the Medium (Elise Domenach, Ecole Normale Sup?rieure, France)
10. Cavell and the Modernity of Film (Eli Friedlander, Tel Aviv University, Israel)

Part 3 Glossary
11. Claim (Sandra Laugier, Universit? Paris 1 Panth?on Sorbonne, France)
12. Criteria (Martin Shuster, University of North Carolina, USA)
13. On the Human Form of Life (Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University, USA)
14. Skepticism (Jeroen Gerrits, SUNY Binghamton, USA)
15. Tragedy (Nicole Jerr, United States Air Force Academy, USA)

Index