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103Literature, Life, and ModernityCambridge University Press. 2008.In Literature, Life, and Modernity Richard Eldridge focuses on the question of a reader's or a viewer's response to a literary or dramatic work in a specific historical epoch ("modernity"). That is, in contrast with many other philosophical approaches to literature, he avoids fixing attention on any putative doctrinal (moral or political or diagnostic) claims in a literary work. Thereby, and in many other admirable ways, he avoids the danger of treating literature as philosophy manqué, concedes …Read more
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49Hypotheses, Criterial Claims, and Perspicuous Representations: Wittgenstein's 'Remarks on Frazer's The Golden Bough'Philosophical Investigations 10 (3): 226-245. 1987.
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2Wittgenstein on aspect-seeing, the nature of discursive consciousness, and the experience of agencyIn William Day & Víctor J. Krebs (eds.), Seeing Wittgenstein Anew, Cambridge University Press. 2010.
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104The Oxford handbook of philosophy and literature (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2009.The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature contains 23 newly commissioned essays by major philosophers and literary scholars that investigate literature ...
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13The persistence of romanticism: essays in philosophy and literatureCambridge University Press. 2001.These challenging essays defend Romanticism against its critics. They argue that Romantic thought, interpreted as the pursuit of freedom in concrete contexts, remains a central and exemplary form of both artistic work and philosophical understanding. Marshalling a wide range of texts from literature, philosophy and criticism, Richard Eldridge traces the central themes and stylistic features of Romantic thinking in the work of Kant, Hölderlin, Wordsworth, Hardy, Wittgenstein, Cavell and Updike. T…Read more
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32Philosophy and the achievement of community: Rorty, Cavell and criticismMetaphilosophy 14 (2). 1983.
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57Authority and estrangement: An essay on self-knowledgePhilosophical Investigations 26 (4). 2003.Richard Moran, Authority and Estrangement: An Essay on Self Knowledge.
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63Metaphysics and the interpretation of persons: Davidson on thinking and conceptual schemes (review)Synthese 66 (3). 1986.Certain metaphysical and epistemological presuppositions are shown to play a role in the defense of Davidson's claims that an empirically constructed theory of truth provides an adequate theory of meaning for any natural language. Dadivson puts forward demonstrative arguments in favor of these presuppositions in On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme, Thought and Talk, and The Method of Truth in Metaphysics. These arguments are examined and found to include controversial and dubitable assumptio…Read more
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7Pragmatic Liberalism and the Critique of Modernity (review)Philosophy and Literature 23 (2): 445-447. 1999.
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109The Normal and the Normative: Wittgenstein’s Legacy, Kripke, and CavellPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 46 (4): 555-575. 1986.
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15Fictions, Philosophies, and the Problems of Poetics (review)Philosophy and Literature 14 (1): 207-208. 1990.
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15On Moral Personhood: Philosophy, Literature, Criticism, and Self-KnowledgeJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 49 (2): 169-170. 1991.
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24Cavell and the American JeremiadJournal of Philosophical Research 39 377-391. 2014.Building on remarks by Dewey, Brandom, and Wittgenstein among others, this paper characterizes and defends a general style of philosophy as elucidatory analysis of concepts in circulation within a culture. The presence of this general style is then traced briefly in Quine and Beardsley. I then raise the question whether there is anything distinctively American about this general style. Drawing on work by Sacvan Bercovitch, I argue that use of this style is motivated by America’s distinctive reli…Read more
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38Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language (review)Review of Metaphysics 37 (4): 859-861. 1984.Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language is very much a work on Wittgenstein's epistemology, not on his philosophy of mind. Kripke focuses on Wittgenstein's account, principally set out in sections 1-242 of Philosophical Investigations, of our grasp of concepts and our ability to apply them; he discusses Wittgenstein's views about such topics as imagination, sensations, and consciousness only in passing as they bear on the former topic.
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33Romance and politics/romance and folly: Thomas E. Wartenberg's unlikely couplesJournal of Social Philosophy 33 (2). 2002.
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50How Movies Think: Cavell on Film as a Medium of ArtEstetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 51 (1): 3-20. 2014.Stanley Cavell’s writing about movies, from the more theoretical and general The World Viewed (1971) to the later works on specific genres (Pursuits of Happiness, Contesting Tears), has a unifying theme: some movies as (successful) art investigate conditions of accomplished selfhood and interest in experience in medium-specific ways. This claim is explained and defended by explicating the details of the medium-specificity of the moving photographic image (and its history of uses) and by focusing…Read more
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14Myth, Truth and Literature: Towards a True Post-Modernism (review)Philosophy and Literature 14 (1): 227-228. 1990.
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28Stanley Cavell (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2003.Contemporary Philosophy in Focus offers a series of introductory volumes on many of the dominant philosophical thinkers of the current age. Stanley Cavell has been one of the most creative and independent of contemporary philosophical voices. At the core of his thought is the view that skepticism is not a theoretical position to be refuted by philosophical theory but is a reflection of the fundamental limits of human knowledge of the self, of others and of the external world that must be accepte…Read more
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57Problems and prospects of Wittgensteinian aestheticsJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 45 (3): 251-261. 1987.
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3Cora Diamond, The Realistic Spirit: Wittgenstein, Philosophy, and the Mind Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 14 (1): 15-18. 1994.
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24Response to Victor yelverton HainesJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 53 (2): 188-189. 1995.
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37Leading a Human Life: Wittgenstein, Intentionality, and RomanticismUniversity of Chicago Press. 1997.In this provocative new study, Richard Eldridge presents a highly original and compelling account of Wittgenstein's _Philosophical Investigations_, one of the most enduring yet enigmatic works of the twentieth century. He does so by reading the text as a dramatization of what is perhaps life's central motivating struggle—the inescapable human need to pursue an ideal of expressive freedom within the difficult terms set by culture. Eldridge sees Wittgenstein as a Romantic protagonist, engaged in a…Read more
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20Some Remarks on Logical Truth: Human Nature and RomanticismMidwest Studies in Philosophy 19 (1): 220-242. 1994.
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12The Cultural Spaces of the Arts and the Infelicities of Reductionism by margolis, josephJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 69 (2): 240-242. 2011.
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32Frege (review)Review of Metaphysics 37 (3): 619-621. 1984.Recent revisionists about Frege have suggested that, contrary to Dummett's monumental work, Frege is to be understood as primarily an epistemologist, not a theorist of meaning. Currie's book is a valuable contribution to this new way of looking at Frege. Where Sluga, for example, focuses on the historical context of Frege's work and other writers are concerned with special topics such as naming and proof theory, Currie surveys the whole of Frege's career, highlighting his fundamental interest in…Read more
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7Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage (review)Philosophy and Literature 7 (1): 140-142. 1983.
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19th Century Philosophy |