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American Ethnologist, Volume 50, Issue 4, Page 645-655, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Among my interlocutors in Mashhad, Iran's second‐largest city, were individuals who repeatedly claimed that some persons, philosophies, and ethical lives not only might be but actually were perfect (kāmel). The salavāt, a polyvalent blessing upon the Prophet and his descendants, evinces this.
Simon Theobald
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Rules, practices and principles: Putting bioethical principles in their place
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, Volume 29, Issue 7, Page 1095-1099, October 2023., 2023 Abstract Bioethics seems preoccupied with establishing, debating, promoting and sometimes debunking principles. While these tasks trade on the status of the word ‘principle’ in our ordinary language, scant attention is paid to the way principles operate in language.
Doug Hardman, Phil Hutchinson
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Dogtooth and Wittgenstein's builders: A future in language?
Philosophical Investigations, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 438-461, October 2023., 2023 Abstract This article grows out of the conviction that (some) films can philosophise. It looks to juxtapose the film Dogtooth and Wittgenstein's builders' example, such that they are seen as philosophising in similar ways over similar issues. Both strike me as probing the possibility—or denial—of a future with language.
Daniel Simons
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Out of the ordinary: Everyday life and the “carnival of Mussolini”
American Anthropologist, Volume 125, Issue 3, Page 493-504, September 2023., 2023 Abstract Ordinary life is in many ways the quintessential object of anthropological analysis. Yet little attention has been paid to contexts in which it is important to people themselves that they and their actions are seen to be ordinary and to the work that goes into making something or someone appear ordinary.
Paolo Heywood
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Endlessly Responsible: Ethics as First Philosophy in Stanley Cavell’s Invocation of Literature
Humanities, 2019 This essay aims to give an overview of the topic ethics and literature in Stanley Cavell’s complete oeuvre. It argues that Cavell’s preoccupation with literature is, from beginning to end, primarily ethical, even though he takes his point of ...
Mette Blok
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AM: Art + Media, 2016 When in his Tanner lectures Stanley Cavell sets out to define Ordinary Language Philosophy or – rather – to explain how it demarcates philosophy as such, he takes up psychoanalytic literary criticism in order to articulate the terms of this task. Yet the
Tatjana Jukić
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DOWNPOUR : FRAMES, FEELINGS AND FILE TYPES
Studies in Arts and Humanities, 2020 The Form of the WorkThe ontological fact that actions move within a dark and shifting circle of intention and consequences, that their limits are our own, that the individual significance of an act (like that of a word) arises in its being this one ...
Barnaby Taylor
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‘Yours truly saying with an invisible voice’: W. S. Graham's Smalltalk
, 2023 Critical Quarterly, Volume 65, Issue 4, Page 105-123, December 2023.
Jack Barron
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“Epistemological Reading”: Stanley Cavell’s Method of Reading Literature [PDF]
The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, 2016 Not many readers will recognize Disowning Knowledge: Seven Plays of Shakespeareby Stanley Cavell as either a piece of philosophical writing or literary criticism, so it may be useful to ask what method Cavell uses to read literature, what are the main ...
Magdalena Filipczuk
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Cliché, Irony and the Necessity of Meaning in Endgame and Infinite Jest
Forum, 2014 With reference to the work of the ordinary language philosopher Stanley Cavell, this essay argues that David Foster Wallace’s 1996 novel Infinite Jest deploys cliché to expose the workings of ironic language in a way that is complementary to a similar ...
James Cetkovski
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