This New Yet Unapproachable America

Zusammenfassung Explains how language modifies human existence! looking specifically at the culture of Wittgenstein's writings. In this title! the author draws on Emerson! Thoreau! and many others to make his case that Wittgenstein can indeed be viewed as a "philosopher of culture".

Auteur

Stanley Cavell is the Walter M. Cabot Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and General Theory of Value at Harvard University and the author of many books. These include Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome, In Quest of the Ordinary, and Themes out of School, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Explains how language modifies human existence, looking specifically at the culture of Wittgenstein's writings. In this title, the author draws on Emerson, Thoreau, and many others to make his case that Wittgenstein can indeed be viewed as a "philosopher of culture".