Stanley Cavell and the Potencies of the Voice

Adam Gonya

Bloomsbury Academic

2019

240 páginas

8h 0m

ISBN-13: 9781501349485

Inglês

Stanley Cavell was one of the most influential American philosophers of the past several decades. Yet because he is often read in connection with Wittgenstein, there has been little consideration of his work against the background of the larger German philosophical tradition. Stanley Cavell and the Potencies of the Voice brings Cavell into dialogue with Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on the question of how we make ourselves intelligible given that our words are both within and yet also beyond our control. Not only does this help us understand Cavell's claim of wanting to bring back to philosophy a conception of the human voice which had become lost in thought, it also opens up a new way of looking at Cavell's key notion of skepticism. Stanley Cavell and the Potencies of the Voice articulates an approach to important questions on intelligibility of interest to those working in philosophy or literary studies, or indeed anyone curious about how, using language, we try to make sense of our lives.