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Title: Jane Austen and Other Minds
Condition: New
Subtitle: Ordinary Language Philosophy in Literary Fiction
Author: Eric Reid Lindstrom
Format: Hardback
EAN: 9781009206990
ISBN: 9781009206990
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Genre: Literary Criticism
Release Date: 27/10/2022
Description: Jane Austen's fiction is itself philosophy, a fact to which Stanley Cavell attested when he honored his philosophical teacher, J. L. Austin, through homage to her and her work. Engaging equally in criticism and in philosophy, Jane Austen and Other Minds demonstrates the standing of Austen's fiction as a philosophical investigation, both in its own right and as a resource to ordinary language philosophy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Eric Reid Lindstrom addresses a long-standing shortcoming of Austen scholarship by locating in her fiction a linguistic phenomenology available to the novelistic everyday but not afforded her in intellectual history. He simultaneously advances recognition and understanding of J. L. Austin and Stanley Cavell, and of ordinary language philosophy, within Austen scholarship and the broader field of contemporary literary studies. This book argues compellingly for Cavell's choice of Austen as a means to pursue 'passionate exchange,' reimagining her common association with restriction and confinement.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 235mm
Item Length: 157mm
Item Width: 22mm
Item Weight: 600g
Book Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Release Year: 2022

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