Endlessly Responsible: Ethics as First Philosophy in Stanley Cavell's Invocation of Literature.
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 departure in epistemological skepticism. Recent research o...
| Publicado en: | Humanities (2076-0787) Vol. 8; no. 2; pp. 114 - 115 |
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