The Claim of Reason

This handsome new edition of Stanley Cavell's landmark text, first published 20 years ago, provides a new preface that discusses the reception and influence of his work, which occupies a unique niche between philosophy and literary studies.

PART ONE
Wittgenstein and the Concept of Human Knowledge
I: Criteria and Judgment
II: Criteria and Skepticism
III: Austin and Examples
IV: What a Think Is (Called)
V: Natural and Conventional
PART TWO
Skepticism and the Existence of the World
VI: The Quest of Traditional Epistemology: Opening
VII: Excursus on Wittgenstein's Vision of Language
VIII: The Quest of Traditional Epistemology: Closing
PART THREE
Knowledge and the concept of Morality
IX: Knowledge and the Basis of Morality
X: An Absence of Morality
XI: Rules and Reasons
XII: The Autonomy of Morals
PART FOUR
Skepticism and the Problem of Others
XIII: Between Acknowledgment and Avoidance