Frasi di Stanley Cavell

“I know how to give the meaning of a word but not how to give the intention of a word.”

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Stanley Cavell

The Division of Talent (1985)

“The crucified human body is our best picture of the unacknowledged human soul.”

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Stanley Cavell

The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy (Oxford: 1979), p. 430

“The achievement of happiness requires not the … satisfaction of our needs … but the examination and transformation of those needs.”

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Stanley Cavell

Pursuits of Happiness (1984)