Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome: The Constitution of Emersonian Perfectionism: The Carus Lectures, 1988

by Stanley Cavell

Book Overview

In these three lectures, Cavell situates Emerson at an intersection of three crossroads: a place where both philosophy and literature pass; where the two traditions of English and German philosophy shun one another; where the cultures of America and Europe unsettle one another.

"Cavell's 'readings' of Wittgenstein and Heidegger and Emerson and other thinkers surely deepen our understanding of them, but they do much more: they offer a vision...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226098214
• ISBN13: 9780226098210
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 163 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"