Phûsis: The Fatalities of Appearance

2019 ◽  
pp. 187-214
Author(s):  
Peter S. Fosl
Keyword(s):  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
Ralph Waldo Emerson ◽  
Stanley Cavell ◽  
Common Life ◽  
The Press

Nature is the first component of the Pyrrhonian Fourfold; and Chapter Five argues that Hume’s naturalism is constitutive of his scepticism, rather than opposed to it or distinct from it. The chapter’s excursus describes a properly sceptical naturalism, a naturalism stripped of epistemic and metaphysical claims and import. Chapter Five grounds its argument first upon Hume’s ideas about animality and the association of ideas and proceeds to lay out the subtle interplay of necessity and contingency in Hume’s theories concerning causality, reason, perception, and imagination. The chapter interprets the reassertion of nature at the end of Treatise 1.4.7 as a crucially Pyrrhonian-Apelleticmoment moment that presents atûchikos finding about human fortune and fate. Nature more generally is rendered in Hume as the press of humanity’s fatedness to impressions or appearances in common life. The text compares Hume’s ideas with those of various rationalists, as well as with the work of Immanuel Kant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Stanley Cavell.

Pierre Hadot as a Reader of Wittgenstein

Paragraph ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 322-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Laugier
Keyword(s):  
Ralph Waldo Emerson ◽  
Henry David Thoreau ◽  
Ancient Philosophy ◽  
Political Transformation ◽  
Ethical Reflection ◽  
Spiritual Exercise ◽  
Stanley Cavell ◽  
Collège De France ◽  
Pierre Hadot ◽  
Point Of Departure

Pierre Hadot (1922–2010), professor of ancient philosophy at the Collège de France, published, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, some of the earliest work on Wittgenstein to appear in French. Hadot conceived of philosophy as an activity rather than a body of doctrines and found in Wittgenstein a fruitful point of departure for ethical reflection. Hadot's understanding of philosophy as a spiritual exercise — articulated through his reading of ancient philosophy but also the American transcendentalists Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson — will find an echo in Wittgenstinian thinkers such as Stanley Cavell and Cora Diamond. Ultimately philosophy for Hadot is a call to personal and political transformation.

scholarly journals Senses of Echo Lake: Michael Palmer, Stanley Cavell, and the Moods of an American Philosophical Tradition

Humanities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 98
Author(s):  
Richard Deming
Keyword(s):  
Ralph Waldo Emerson ◽  
Henry David Thoreau ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Stanley Cavell ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
American Philosophy ◽  
Active Reading ◽  
Moral Perfectionism ◽  
The Way

This essay explores a philosophical tradition that Stanley Cavell has traced out and which he emphasizes as being American inasmuch as it is arises out of the thinking of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. It then investigates how the poems of the avant-garde poet Michael Palmer link with, overlap with, this strain of American philosophy in terms of how it enacts an understanding of what we might call “philosophical mood,” on outlook based on the navigation of representation, generative self-consciousness, and doubt that amounts to a form of epistemology. The essay does not trace the influence—direct or otherwise of Cavell and his arguments for philosophy on the poems, despite a biographical connection between Cavell and Palmer, his former student. Instead it brings out the way that one might fruitfully locate Palmer’s work within an American literary/philosophical continuum. The article shows how that context opens up the work to a range of important existential and ethical implications. I endeavor to show that Notes for Echo Lake, Palmer’s most important collection, locates itself, its language, within such a frame so as to provide a place for readerly encounters with the limitations of language. These encounters then are presented as an opportunity for a deeper understanding of subjectivity and for attuning oneself to the role that active reading and interpretation might play in moral perfectionism.

Jodocus Badius Ascensius: The Making of a Name

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul White
Keyword(s):  
Low Countries ◽  
Devotional Poetry ◽  
Common Life ◽  
Northern European ◽  
The Press ◽  
Secular Humanist

This chapter, by way of introduction, explores the life and work of Badius, drawing on judgements by his contemporaries and posterity. It introduces Badius via perspectives on the various roles he played throughout his career in the learned culture of the Renaissance: poet, schoolmaster, commentator, editor, scholar-printer. His biography is presented in the context of the groups and networks with which he identified, both secular humanist and religious, in the Low Countries, Italy, Germany, England and France. Educated by the Ghent Common Life Brethren, in the early part of his career he worked in Lyon for the press of Johann Trechsel, and belonged to a group of northern European humanists who circulated and published devotional poetry. He became known as an editor, grammarian and writer of commentaries, and established his own press in 1503 in Paris, where he associated with the best known humanist scholars of the day: Robert Gaguin, Lefèvre d’Etaples, Guillaume Budé, Erasmus.

Stanley Cavell: Emersonian Individualist

2019 ◽  
pp. 25-41
Author(s):  
Dan Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Ralph Waldo Emerson ◽  
Stanley Cavell ◽  
Moral Thought ◽  
Recent Treatment ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Thought

Ralph Waldo Emerson was Cavell’s most significant intellectual mentor. He claimed that Emerson made a singular contribution to the history of American thought with a clarion call to humanity to become who we are. Emerson sought to revolutionize moral thought by making self realization as central to that enterprise as the Kantian concern for duty or the Utilitarian calculus of what will best serve the greatest number. Cavell situates Emerson’s perfectionism at the heart of his genre theories, and of his account of what “The Good of Film” really amounts to. The chapterl illustrates Cavell’s notion of this Emersonian paragon by discussing Steven Spielberg’s recent treatment of the ascendency of Kay Graham (Meryl Streep), as she takes the reins at The Post and decides it should publish the Pentagon papers despite the legal ban on doing so.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-34
Author(s):  
Rebecca A. Sheehan
Keyword(s):  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Ludwig Wittgenstein ◽  
Ralph Waldo Emerson ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Henry David Thoreau ◽  
Stanley Cavell ◽  
Cinema Studies ◽  
Avant Garde

The book’s introductory chapter situates its study of American avant-garde cinema in the context of the field of film-philosophy and the post-theory debates within cinema studies. The chapter rectifies influential misreadings of American avant-garde films by film-philosophers, and goes on to trace philosophy’s influences on the avant-garde, laying the groundwork for putting their films in conversation with the philosophies of Gilles Deleuze, Stanley Cavell, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. This chapter outlines the various kinds of dimensional, conceptual, and material in-betweens at work in American avant-garde cinema, and explains the various ways in which American avant-garde filmmakers have used this figure to advance a philosophy that promotes behaviors of re-encounter and review applicable to the off-screen world.

Friend as Enemy

2018 ◽  
pp. 54-69
Author(s):  
Rastislav Dinić
Keyword(s):  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Ludwig Wittgenstein ◽  
Ralph Waldo Emerson ◽  
Richard Rorty ◽  
Constitutional Democracy ◽  
Stanley Cavell ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
The Difference

Richard Rorty famously claimed that the difference between analytic and continental philosophers, boils down to a political one—analytical philosophers are predominantly liberals who share a belief in the rule of law and the institutions of modern constitutional democracy, while the continental ones tend to be more pessimistic about this political arrangement, and much more prone to experiment with the alternatives. But where does this leave the members of that rare breed—philosophers who see themselves as working in both traditions? In order to answer that question for himself, Rorty has written several books proclaiming his faith in liberalism and America as its most prominent example. But what about Stanley Cavell—a philosopher inspired equally by Ludwig Wittgenstein, J.L. Austen, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger? It is difficult to answer this question straightforwardly, since, although many of his writings are in some sense deeply political, Cavell rarely wrote explicitly on politics, especially in respect of modern ideological struggles. One way someone interested in this question could go about trying to answer it is by turning to Cavell’s encounters with more explicit representatives of certain ideological positions. That is exactly what I intend to do in this paper—by turning to Cavell’s engagement with Yugoslav director Dušan Makavejev.

Immanuel Kant

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
Henry Allison ◽  
Peter Heath ◽  
Gary Hatfield ◽  
Michael Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Immanuel Kant
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