In Quest of the Ordinary: Lines of Skepticism and Romanticism

Author/Contributor(s):	Cavell, Stanley
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Date:	11/01/1994
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

A collection of lectures that examine such authors as Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Wordsworth, and Coleridge to show that romanticism and American transcendentalism represent a serious philosophical response to the challenge of skepticism that underlies the writings of Wittgenstein and Austin on ordinary language.