Themes Out of School · Effects and Causes
- Authors
- Cavell, Stanley
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Tags
- philosophy
- ISBN
- 9780226075150
- Date
- 1900-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.57 MB
- Lang
- en
In the first essay of this book, Stanley Cavell characterizes philosophy as a 'willingness to think not about something other than what ordinary human beings think bout, but rather to learn to think undistractedly about things that ordinary human beings cannot help thinking about, or anyway cannot help having occur to them, sometimes in fantasy, sometimes as a flash across a landscape.