CITY OF WORDS

Description:

This book--which presents a course of lectures Cavell presented several times toward the end of his teaching career at Harvard--links masterpieces of moral philosophy and classic Hollywood comedies to fashion a new way of looking at our lives and learning to live with ourselves.

subjects: action,  Adam's Rib,  Aristotle's,  asks,  become,  beginning,  camera,  categorical,  imperative,  chapter,  Charlotte,  Cities,  of,  Words,  claim,  consent,  conversation,  culture,  declares,  Deeds,  Deeds's,  desire,  difference,  Eliza,  Emerson,  Emersonian,  example,  existence,  expression,  fact,  father,  Felicie,  film,  further,  genre,  Girl,  Friday,  Gregory,  happened,  One night,  happiness,  hence,  Hildy,  Hollywood,  human,  Ibsen,  idea,  imagine,  Jerry,  judgment,  justice,  Kant's,  Katharine,  Hepburn,  knowledge,  Lady,  Eve,  Laurel,  leave,  Leontes,  Lisa,  lives,  Locke,  Locke's,  Lucy,  marriage,  means,  melodramas,  Mill,  Mill's,  moral,  law,  perfectionism,  mother,  namely,  nature,  Nietzsche,  Nietzsche's,  night,  object,  one's,  oneself,  opening,  pair,  Paula,  perfectionist,  perhaps,  Philadelphia,  Story,  philosophy,  Plato,  play,  principle,  psychoanalysis,  question,  Rawls,  Rawls's,  reading,  reason,  recognize,  relation,  remarriage,  comedy,  response,  Rohmer's,  seems,  sense,  Shakespeare's,  society,  Socrates,  soul,  speak,  Stella,  Dallas,  suggests,  tells,  theory,  things,  thought,  tion,  Tracy,  understand,  utilitarian,  writing,  Philosophy,  Perfection,  Moral and ethical aspects,  Conduct of life

People: Sigmund Freud (1856-1939),  Aristotle,  Cary Grant,  Immanuel Kant (1724-1804),  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)