by Stanley Cavell
University of Chicago Press, 1988
eISBN: 978-0-226-41728-8 | Paper: 978-0-226-09818-0 | Cloth: 978-0-226-09817-3
Library of Congress Classification PS217.P45C38 1988
Dewey Decimal Classification 810.9003

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
These lectures by one of the most influential and original philosophers of the twentieth century constitute a sustained argument for the philosophical basis of romanticism, particularly in its American rendering. Through his examination of such authors as Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Wordsworth, and Coleridge, Stanley Cavell shows that romanticism and American transcendentalism represent a serious philosophical response to the challenge of skepticism that underlies the writings of Wittgenstein and Austin on ordinary language.