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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826507803321

Autore

Cavell Stanley <1926->

Titolo

The claim of reason : Wittgenstein, skepticism, morality, and tragedy / / Stanley Cavell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-773006-X

0-19-028493-5

0-19-502571-7

1-280-83320-3

0-19-802026-0

0-19-534404-9

Edizione

[New ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (538 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

121

192

Soggetti

Knowledge, Theory of

Skepticism

Ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previous edition: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1979. With new pref.

Previously issued in print: 1999.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface for the new paperback edition; Foreword; PART ONE: Wittgenstein and the Concept of Human Knowledge; PART TWO: Skepticism and the Existence of the World; PART THREE: Knowledge and the Concept of Morality; PART FOUR: Skepticism and the Problem of Others; Bibliography; Index of Names; Index of Passages Cited from Philosophical Investigations

Sommario/riassunto

Discusses the reception and influence of the work, which occupies a niche between philosophy and literary studies.