Cities of words
Subtitle: pedagogical letters on a register of the moral life
By: Stanley Cavell.
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9780674013360
Subjects: Perfection -- Moral and ethical aspects; Conduct of life; Ethics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Emerson; title: The Philadelphia story; title: Locke; title: Adam's Rob; title: John Stuart Mill; title: Gaslight; title: Kant; title: It happened one night; title: Rawls; title: Mr. Deeds goes to town; title: Nietzsche; title: Now, Voyager; title: Ibsen; title: Stella Dallas; title: Freud; title: The Lady Eve; title: Plato; title: His Girl Friday; title: Aristotle; title: The Awful Truth; title: Henry James and Max Ophuls; title: G.B. Shaw: Pygmalion and Pygmalion; title: Shakespeare and Rohmer: Two Tales of Winter; title: Themes of moral perfectionism in Plato's Republic.