Aesthetics and autobiography in Cavell
- 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.
| Author: | Jochen SchuffGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-561529 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.33134/eeja.208 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/0014-1291 |
| ISSN: | 2571-0915 |
| Parent Title (German): | Estetika : The European Journal of Aesthetics |
| Publisher: | Helsinki University Press |
| Place of publication: | Helsinki |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2020/09/15 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2020/09/15 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2020/10/15 |
| Tag: | Stanley Cavell; aesthetic reasons; art criticism; autobiography; ordinary language; philosophical style |
| Volume: | 57 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Page Number: | 13 |
| First Page: | 150 |
| Last Page: | 162 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 471941751 |
| Institutes: | Philosophie und Geschichtswissenschaften |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 10 Philosophie / 100 Philosophie und Psychologie |
| 7 Künste und Unterhaltung / 70 Künste / 700 Künste; Bildende und angewandte Kunst | |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |
