scholarly journals Listening to Cavell

2019 ◽  
pp. 69-78
Author(s):  
Kay Young
Keyword(s):  
Western Philosophy ◽  
Lecture Hall ◽  
Stanley Cavell ◽  
Waking Up ◽  
Looking Back ◽  
As If ◽  
Sense Of Urgency

We hurried to get the front row seats. Even to nineteen-year-olds, it was clear that what was happening in that lecture hall—fittingly, it was Emerson 105—was worth waking up for, worth pushing to the front for, as if we couldn’t get close enough. And what we couldn’t get close enough to was  Stanley Cavell lecturing on Western philosophy—a course humbly called “Hum 5” (“Humanities 5: Introduction to Western Philosophy”)—looking back, now forty years later, I can say it was probably the most significant intellectual experience of my life. Cavell’s commanding presence—that big head, fixed gaze, and seriousness of purpose—made his entrance onto the dais, raincoat and brief case in hand, an anticipated event. But what dawns on me now is that it wasn’t so much Cavell’s presence or even what he said that made us feel a shared sense of urgency, but rather how he said it, how he performed this urgency that made us feel like we were somewhere else—a world viewed through Cavell’s mind.

scholarly journals Cavell as Mentor

2019 ◽  
pp. 60-64
Author(s):  
Siane Ngai
Keyword(s):  
Stanley Cavell ◽  
Dissertation Committee ◽  
Looking Back

I was a Grad student in English at Harvard in the mid-90s, but physically there for just three years, anxious to move to Brooklyn for a relationship as soon as I became ABD. In that brief but intense period of time, I tried to take as many courses offered by Stanley Cavell as possible. In my last year, I asked him to be a member of my dissertation committee. Looking back I’m still flooded with gratitude (and astonishment) by the fact that he said yes.

Doubt, our modern Crown of Thorns

2016 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 437-455
Author(s):  
Charles M. Stang
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Illness ◽  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
Ludwig Wittgenstein ◽  
Stanley Cavell ◽  
As If

This essay uses T. E. Lawrence's characterization of doubt as ‘our modern crown of thorns’, as an entrée into thinking through the coincidence of doubt and faith in the four canonical gospels. However much each of the gospels may wish to induce faith, it leaves its readers with the distinct impression that doubt, understood differently in each, cannot be fully dispelled. The gospels thereby testify to a lively, ancient appreciation for the irrepressibility of doubt. This essay then turns to the problem of scepticism in modern philosophy. In his work on Ludwig Wittgenstein, the American philosopher Stanley Cavell suggests that scepticism is a ‘condition’ of knowledge, both in the sense of something from which we suffer as if from a chronic illness, and in the sense of that which makes knowledge possible at all. The reader is invited to think of the dialectics of doubt and faith in a similar way, of doubt as the very condition of faith.

Revolutions of the Ordinary: Victorian Studies and the Turn to Ordinary Language

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 449-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Wright
Keyword(s):  
Ludwig Wittgenstein ◽  
Ordinary Language ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Ordinary Language Philosophy ◽  
Language Philosophy ◽  
Stanley Cavell ◽  
Victorian Studies ◽  
As If

“To engage seriously with ordinary language philosophy,” Toril Moi tells us in the introduction to Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies after Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell, “is a little like undergoing psychoanalysis. Wittgenstein assumes that we don't begin doing philosophy just for the sake of it, but because something is making us feel confused, as if we had lost our way.” As Moi begins her project of explaining to an audience of literary critics the insights of ordinary-language philosophy, represented primarily by the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, J. L. Austin, and Stanley Cavell, and making a case for the value of their ideas for the practice we usually call close reading, this psychoanalytic metaphor makes a sudden turn to diagnosis, or to the initiation of a kind of therapeutic address that can feel coercive even in its charisma. You must recognize your sickness, Moi insists, before you can be receptive to the treatment. “Who wants to undergo philosophical therapy,” she goes on to ask, “if they feel that everything in their intellectual life is just fine as it is? Paradoxically, then, the best readers of the reputedly ‘conservative’ Wittgenstein might be those who genuinely feel the need for a change” (12). What kind of therapeutic project does Moi want to pursue in this book, which begins by distinguishing the best readers (the readiest patients) from those who think, conservatively, that everything is “just fine as it is”?

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War and Peace ◽  
2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leo Tolstoy
Keyword(s):  
Drawing Room ◽  
Waking Up ◽  
The Look ◽  
As If

The rustle of a woman’s dress was heard in the next room. Prince Andrei shook himself as if waking up, and his face assumed the look it had had in Anna Pavlovna’s drawing-room. Pierre removed his feet from the sofa. The princess came in....

Designing Research Experiences for Students

1982 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 2-2
Author(s):  
Ralph Bunch
Keyword(s):  
American Government ◽  
Research Experiences ◽  
College Course ◽  
Looking Back ◽  
As If

A person looking back on his college course in American Government in the Forties or Fifties probably recalls its encyclopedic text full of details of the structures of government and the mechanics of politics with a second dose of the same — interspersed with normative exhortations — from his professor's lectures. The prof probably got away with verbal murder in promoting his own interpretations and conclusions as if they were equal to facts from the text. Probably most profs took their title quite literally; that is, they professed or declared their views, often with a passionate conviction. In those days, a prof could be reasonably sure he would not be contradicted by the students who were generally well-mannered, neat, clean, and docile. Today, the majority are well-mannered, neat, clean, and hypercritical.

scholarly journals Revolution by stealth: The impact of learning development on democratising intelligence through constructive approaches to student support.

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stella Maria Cottrell
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Support ◽  
Time Span ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Learning Development ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Collective Psyche ◽  
Looking Back ◽  
As If

Revolution by stealth: The impact of learning development on democratising intelligence through constructive approaches to student support. Dr Stella Cottrell. August 2013. When an organisation celebrates its tenth anniversary and has a large and growing membership, it feels as if a notable milestone has been reached. Often, this is an indicator that a concept has come of age or, at least, that new ways of thinking are becoming established in the collective psyche. 2013 marks the tenth anniversary for the formal organisation of learning development through ALDinHE. That is no mean feat in itself, and a tribute to the efforts not just of volunteers, but of pioneers and innovators in terrains that, 30-40 years ago, had been generally inhospitable and frequently impenetrable. Looking back over that longer time span, this anniversary for ALDinHE can be regarded as one important step in a larger movement focussed on a fundamental repositioning of learning and teaching within higher education.

scholarly journals Analisis Pola Hidup Mahasiswa di Perantauan Terhadap Gastritis

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Difa Estefany
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
The Other ◽  
Time Study ◽  
Loved One ◽  
It Education ◽  
Waking Up ◽  
As If

Nowadays, education is a must for teenagers and kids. It feels like they deserve education as much as they deserve attention from their parents. Moreover, so many adults are still continuing the education, as if they really need it. Education is not only for those, who are searching for job, but also for those, who want to get more in their job. Education is really that important. So many things have been sacrificed for education like time, money, and distance. Some part of students will spend their time study, practice, and doing the task given. Some parents will work hardly so they can pay the bill for education. And some people will spend their life far away from the loved one in order to get the proper education they want. Moving far away from parents isn’t the easy thing for teenagers. They have to get their life together, while they’re spending their time on education. This thing can cause the other problem, like unhealthy life, such as waking up late, rarely doing sport, and irregular time for eating. If these kinds of thing are done continually, it can cause disease. Many disease caused by unhealthy life cycle can attack our body, the example is gastritis.

Chapter III

Jane Eyre ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Brontë
Keyword(s):  
Waking Up ◽  
As If

The next thing I remember is, waking up with a feeling as if I had had a frightful night-mare, and seeing before me a terrible red glare, crossed with thick black bars. I heard voices, too, speaking with a hollow sound, and as if...

scholarly journals Microplastic: pollution issue and seafood security

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-27
Author(s):  
Khusnul Yaqin
Keyword(s):  
Human Activities ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Food Sources ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Plastic Materials ◽  
Waking Up ◽  
First Time ◽  
As If ◽  
Back To Sleep

At the first time, plastic materials were produced to facilitate various activities of human life. Plastic materials that are flexible and durable have been used by humans to meet various needs to support their daily activities. Starting from human activities from waking up to going back to sleep, nowadays it cannot be separated from the use of plastic materials. This then makes humans "addicted" to plastic materials. It is as if human life cannot be separated from the use of plastic materials. Various research results in the field of pollution both on land and the sea, plastic materials that are not managed properly can contaminate human life, either directly or indirectly, to food sources, especially food from the sea.

scholarly journals The International Critical Commentary on Genesis, Chronicles, and the Psalms

1912 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-109
Author(s):  
Kemper Fullerton
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Good Thing ◽  
World War ◽  
Critical Commentary ◽  
Waking Up ◽  
Modern Warfare ◽  
As If

“What with Winckler, Jeremias, and Cheyne, and now Eerdmans, Old Testament scholars have a good many new eras dawning on them just now. Whether any of them will shine unto the perfect day, time will show.” With these gently sarcastic words Dr. Skinner describes the situation which a commentator on Genesis must be prepared to face at the present time. But the dawn is the waking-up time. The reveille sounded by these various scholars is exhilarating. The war to which they challenge Old Testament investigators may not prove to be a world-war, the critical map of the Old Testament may not be materially altered; but it is a good thing that the dominant school of criticism which follows Wellhausen should be compelled to meet antagonists equipped with all the resources of modern warfare. So long as their opponents were armed only with the weapons of the old apologetics, these critics had an easy time of it. After the publication of the great Prolegomena it seemed as if the last word had been spoken. Canaan had been conquered anew. All that remained for the victors to do was to settle down in the land, appropriate the high-places to themselves, and reduce the ancient inhabitants to Nethinim. But no sooner had they entered into possession than the temptation of the settled life began to beset them as it beset the Hebrews of old. They had driven out the traditions that had occupied the land for millenniums, but the ancient inhabitants, as is so often the case, soon threatened to conquer the conquerors.

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