Jane Austen and Other Minds (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781009206990)

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

Author: Eric Reid Lindstrom
ISBN-10: 1009206990
ISBN-13: 9781009206990
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/27/2022
Pages: 308
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2023