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Author Cavell, Stanley, 1926-2018.

Title Conditions handsome and unhandsome : the constitution of Emersonian perfectionism / Stanley Cavell
Published La Salle, Ill. : Open Court ; Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1990]
©1990

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Description xxxix, 151 pages ; 23 cm
Series The Carus lectures ; [19th ser.] 1988
Paul Carus lectures ; 19th ser
Contents Machine derived contents note: Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Staying the Course -- 1. Aversive Thinking -- Emersonian Representations in Heidegger and Nietzsche -- 2. The Argument of the Ordinary -- Scenes of Instruction in Wittgenstein and in Kripke -- 3. The Conversation of Justice -- Rawls and the Drama of Consent -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Hope against Hope -- Appendix B: A Cover Letter -- Bibliography
Analysis Philosophy
United States
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-151)
Subject Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Ethics.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Philosophy.
Perfection -- Moral and ethical aspects.
LC no. 89049128 90023561 91037790
ISBN 0226098214 (paperback: alk. paper)
0812691490 (cloth : alk. paper)