Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. 1 Introduction: Stanley Cavell and the Claim to Community 1
5. 2 Wittgenstein and Cavell: Anthropology, Skepticism, and Politics 19
6. 3 Bringing Truth Home: Mill, Wittgenstein, Cavell, and Moral Perfectionism 38
7. 4 Telling the Dancer from the Dance: On the Relevance of the Ordinary for Political Thought 58
8. 5 Political Revisions: Stanley Cavell and Political Philosophy 80
9. 6 Perfectionism Without Perfection: Cavell, Montaigne, and the Conditions of Morals and Politics 98
10. 7 Perfectionism, Parrhesia, and the Care of the Self: Foucault and Cavell on Ethics and Politics 128
11. 8 Stanley Cavell and the Limits of Appreciation 156
12. 9 Cavell and Political Romanticism 164
13. 10 Stanley Cavell and the Pursuits of Happiness 186
14. 11 Cordelia's Calculus: Love and Loneliness in Cavell's Reading of Lear 212
15. 12 Aesthetics and Receptivity: Kant, Nietzsche, Cavell, and Astaire 236
16. 13 The Incessance and the Absence of the Political 263
17. Notes 319
18. Contributors 375
19. Index 379