Richard L Eldridge

On Moral Personhood: Philosophy, Literature, Criticism, and Self Understanding

Stanley Cavell

Stanley Cavell

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art

Leading a Human Life: Wittgenstein, Intentionality, and Romanticism

Leading a Human Life: Wittgenstein, Intentionality, and Romanticism

Beyond Representation: Philosophy and Poetic Imagination

The Persistence of Romanticism: Essays in Philosophy and Literature

Stanley Cavell (Contemporary Philosophy in Focus)

Stanley Cavell has been one of the most creative and independent of contemporary philosophical voices. At the core of his thought is the view that skepticism is not a theoretical position to be refuted by philosophical theory but is a reflection of the fundamental limits of human knowledge of the se...

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy)

Richard Eldridge's compact survey of philosophical theories of the nature and significance of art draws on materials from classical and contemporary philosophy as well as literary theory and art criticism. Eldridge explores the representational, expressive, and formal dimensions of art, and argues t...

The Persistence of Romanticism: Essays in Philosophy and Literature (Modern European Philosophy)

These challenging essays defend Romanticism against its critics. They argue that Romantic thought, interpreted as the pursuit of freedom in concrete contexts, remains a central and exemplary form of both artistic work and philosophical understanding. Richard Eldridge traces the central features of R...

Images of History: Kant, Benjamin, Freedom, and the Human Subject

Developing work in the theories of action and explanation, Eldridge argues that moral and political philosophers require accounts of what is historically possible, while historians require rough philosophical understandings of ideals that merit reasonable endorsement. Both Immanuel Kant and Walter B...

Stanley Cavell and Literary Studies: Consequences of Skepticism

Stanley Cavell and Literary Studies is a groundbreaking work that makes clear the relevance of Cavell's ideas for literary criticism. Arguably no other living philosopher has done as much as Cavell to show the common cause shared by literature and philosophy. It would seem, therefore, that literary ...

On Moral Personhood: Philosophy, Literature, Criticism, and Self-Understanding

In this remarkable blend of sophisticated philosophical analysis and close reading of literary texts, Richard Eldridge presents a convincing argument that literature is the most important and richest source of insights in favor of a historicized Kantian moral philosophy. He effectively demonstrates ...

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature (Oxford Handbooks)

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature contains twenty-three newly commissioned essays by major philosophers and literary scholars that investigate literature as a form of attention to human life. Various forms of attention are considered under the headings of Genres (from Ancient Epic to ...

Leading a Human Life: Wittgenstein, Intentionality, and Romanticism

In this provocative new study, Richard Eldridge presents a highly original and compelling account of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, one of the most enduring yet enigmatic works of the twentieth century. He does so by reading the text as a dramatization of what is perhaps life's central...