Author: Bruns, Gerald L.
Title: Tragic Thoughts at the End of Philosophy: Language, Literature, and Ethical Theory
Description: Evanston [IL], Northwestern Univ. Press, (1999). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xiii,299 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction: Theory, Practice, Proximity: A Short History of the End of Philosphy; The Proximity of Language: Loose Talk About Religion from William James; Donald Davidson Among the Outcasts; Law & Language: Ronald Dworkin, Critical Legal Studies, & the Hermeneutics of the Legal Text; The Limits of Narrative: Literature & the Limits of Moral Philosphy: Reflections on Alasdair MacIntyre's Project; Along the Final Narrative Turn: A Cautionary Tale for Neurophilosophers & Other Eliminative Materialists; Tragic Thoughts at the End of Philosophy: Martha Nussbaum's Ethics of Particularity; Poetry & Philosophy Inside the Everyday World: ' The Accomplishment of Inhabitation': Danto, Cavell, & the Argument of American Poetry; Wallace Stevens Without Epistemology; Stanley Cavell's Shakespeare; The Last Romantic: Stanley Cavell & the Writing of Philosophy.

Keywords: Philosophy of Literature, Literary Theory, Criticism, Stanley Cavell, Language, Ethics, Tragic Tragedy, ,