{"product_id":"themes-out-of-school-stanley-cavell-9780226097886","title":"Themes Out of School: Effects and Causes","description":"In the first essay of this book, Stanley Cavell characterizes philosophy as a \"willingness to think not about something other than what ordinary human beings think about, but rather to learn to think undistractedly about things that ordinary human beings cannot help thinking about, or anyway cannot help having occur to them, sometimes in fantasy, sometimes as a flash across a landscape.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFantasies of film and television and literature, flashes across the landscape of literary theory, philosophical discourse, and French historiography give Cavell his starting points in these twelve essays. Here is philosophy in and out of \"school,\" understood as a discipline in itself or thought through the works of Shakespeare, Moli鑽e, Kierkegaard, Thoreau, Brecht, Makavejev, Bergman, Hitchcock, Astaire, and Keaton.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanley Cavell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226097889\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226097886\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/15\/1988\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.04h x 5.34w x 0.67d","brand":"Stanley Cavell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43913420177663,"sku":"9780226097886","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_94071168-7b0a-45ad-af7c-fd6a5bfae84c.jpg?v=1680620310","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/themes-out-of-school-stanley-cavell-9780226097886","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}