THE JERUSALEM-HARVARD LECTURES

A Pitch of Philosophy

Autobiographical Exercises

Stanley Cavell

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$30.50 • £24.95 • €27.50

ISBN 9780674669819

Publication: February 1996

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196 pages

6 x 9 inches

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This book is an invitation to the life of philosophy in the United States, as Emerson once lived it and as Stanley Cavell now lives it—in all its topographical ambiguity.

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