TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schuff, Jochen
T1  - Aesthetics and autobiography in Cavell
T2  - Estetika : The European Journal of Aesthetics
N2  - Stanley Cavell is one of very few philosophers who systematically reflect on the impact and influence of autobiographical detail, experience, and preferences on their philosophical work. The aim of this essay is to show how Cavell’s use of autobiographical exploration is rooted in his early aesthetic theory, in particular his view of the similarities between philosophy and aesthetic criticism. Cavell argues that criticism starts by exploiting and incorporating a subjective vantage point, eventually bringing the reader to test the significance of a work on herself. In his ‘Aesthetic Problems of Modern Philosophy’, Cavell states exactly this form of appeal to the ‘We’ of author and reader as the basic move of his own version of ‘ordinary language philosophy’. It is because of the connections Cavell sees between criticism and philosophy that his aesthetic diagnosis harks back on his overall critical style of thinking.
KW  - Stanley Cavell
KW  - autobiography
KW  - art criticism
KW  - ordinary language
KW  - aesthetic reasons
KW  - philosophical style
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/56152
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-561529
SN  - 2571-0915
VL  - 57
IS  - 2
SP  - 150
EP  - 162
PB  - Helsinki University Press
CY  - Helsinki
ER  -