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The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy by Stanley Cavell

jeremiah's review

Here, as in all his writings, Cavell is like a philosophical DJ, cutting and scratching, spinning back, and bending the pitch of Wittgenstein, Austin, Descartes, Thompson Clarke, Shakespeare, Heidegger, et al. Stephen Mulhall has a great paper called "On Refusing to Begin" in which he wonders what The Claim of Reason is about, what kind of text it is. A tough question, to be sure, but for starters, we know it is, in part, a grand remix of the Philosophical Investigations, the Meditations, Othello, etc.