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The Claim to Community : Essays on Stanley Cavell and Political Philosophy, Paperback / softback Book

The Claim to Community : Essays on Stanley Cavell and Political Philosophy Paperback / softback

Edited by Andrew Norris

Paperback / softback

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Stanley Cavell's unique contributions to the study of epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, film, Shakespeare, and American philosophy have all received wide acclaim.

But there has been relatively little recognition of the pertinence of Cavell's work to our understanding of political philosophy.

The Claim to Community fills this gap with essays from a wide range of prominent American, English, French, and Italian philosophers and political theorists, as well as a lengthy response to the essays by Cavell himself.

The topics covered include Cavell's understanding of political community, philosophical anthropology, moral perfectionism, the positivist distinction between fact and value, political friendship, the differences between political and aesthetic disagreement, political romanticism, "the pursuit of happiness," tragedy, and race.

There are also evaluations of the ways Cavell's positions on these and other matters compare with those of Plato, Aristotle, Montaigne, Kant, John Stuart Mill, Thoreau, Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, Hannah Arendt, Carl Schmitt, Peter Winch, Wittgenstein, and Fred Astaire.

This volume will be of great interest to political theorists and political philosophers, as well as to students of literature and film.

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