This New Yet Unapproachable America: Lectures after Emerson after Wittgenstein (Frederick Ives Carpenter Lectures, 1987.) - Hardcover
Book 3 of 5: Carpenter Lectures
Synopsis
The two essays in this book, first published in 1989, were delivered as two of the 1987 Carpenter Lectures at the University of Chicago. Wittgenstein and Emerson are major influences on and subjects of Cavell's thought, and here he thinks and rethinks of these two intellectual forebears. As the title shows, he finds an important crux for contemplation in Emerson's idea of America.
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Review
"Joins Cavell's other fine readings of works by the American transcendentalists. . . . The effort to read Cavell will make philosophy have what some have known that literature has always offeredthe hope of experience (thought) at each instant as that instant occurs.
About the Author
Stanley Cavell is the Walter M. Cabot Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and General Theory of Value at Harvard University and the author of many books. These include Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome, In Quest of the Ordinary, and Themes out of School, all published by the University of Chicago Press.
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