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Enter the Child: A Scene from Stanley Cavell's The Claim of Reason
- Philosophy and Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 46, Number 2, October 2022
- pp. 251-262
- 10.1353/phl.2022.0018
- Article
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Abstract
Abstract:
Taking its cue from a resonant passage in Stanley Cavell's The Claim of Reason, this essay reflects on the necessity of the figure of the child for Cavell's philosophy and for his understanding of the differences between Austinian and Wittgensteinian criteria. It develops the difference between instruction and initiation by meditating on how we learn the words for love. Finally, I examine briefly the figure of the boy Mamillius, son of the skeptic Leontes, in William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, whom Cavell first noticed as central to the play's energies.
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