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Cavell, Stanley. 1996. Emerson's constitutional amending: reading 'fate'. In Budick, Sanford and Wolfgang Iser, eds. The translatability of cultures: figurations of the space between. Stanford: Stanford University Press. pp. 101–126.
Publication type
Article in jnl/bk
Publication language
English
Person as a subject
Abstract
This article considers the formative ‘pain’ of philosophy – “the pain of recognizing oneself in change” – which Cavell describes in his paper. Cavell’s essay is the record of a crisis in his reading of Emerson’s silence of slavery (in Fate), mediated by Heidegger’s silence (in all his philosophical writings) on the Holocaust.
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