Sandra Laugier has long been a key liaison between American and European philosophical thought, responsible for bringing American philosophers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Stanley Cavell to French readers—but until now her books have never been published in English. Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy rights that wrong with a topic perfect for English-language readers: the idea of analytic philosophy. Focused on clarity and logical argument, analytic philosophy has dominated the discipline in the United States, Australia, and Britain over the past one hundred years, and it is often seen as a unified, coherent, and inevitable advancement. Laugier questions this assumption, rethinking the very grounds that drove analytic philosophy to develop and uncovering its inherent tensions and confusions. Drawing on J. L. Austin and the later works of Ludwig Wittgenstein, she argues for the solution provided by ordinary language philosophy—a philosophy that trusts and utilizes the everyday use of language and the clarity of meaning it provides—and in doing so offers a major contribution to the philosophy of language and twentieth- and twenty-first-century philosophy as a whole.

Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy

Politics & Social Sciences

Laugier, Sandra

Philosophy

University of Chicago Press

The first book to explore the hold of the TV series on ordinary life from a philosophical and ethical perspective.

TV-Philosophy: How TV Series Change Our Thinking

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Univ of Exeter Pr

TV-Philosophy in Action is inspired by philosopher and series-devotee Sandra Laugier's monthly columns published in the French journal Liberation. It is her contribution to the collective reflection on TV series produced by critics, theorists, and the vast mass of individual watchers who evaluate and discuss these programmes every day. The book brings together a selection of articles from Liberation, as well as longer pieces, to demonstrate 'TV-Philosophy in action': Laugier's response as a philosopher-viewer to a range of particularly salient TV shows from the last 20 years, and their relationship to social and political issues of our times. Arranged under a number of important themes-relating to politics, identity, and the stories we tell ourselves about our world-the book shows how TV series provide a rich resource for thinking about our lives, and places them centre-stage as works of art, and of thought, in their own right.

TV-Philosophy in Action: The Ethics and Politics of TV Series

Savons-nous vraiment ce qu'est l'ordinaire, ce qui nous est ordinaire? Penser la philosophie américaine, et le rôle qu'à son coeur joue Stanley Cavell, signifie poser de nouveau ces questions, afin de mettre en évidence une nouvelle voix ou tradition contemporaine qui, à partir du langage ordinaire, parvient à redonner de la vie à des enjeux philosophiques devenus trop conformistes ou étroits, et à réarticuler les questions de langage (ordinaire) au moral et à l'esthétique, comme au politique. A la fois objet de rejet et de fascination, l'ordinaire est comme l'autre de la philosophie, ce qu'elle veut, dans son arrogance, dépasser, mais aussi ce vers quoi elle aspire, nostalgiquement, à retourner. Penser la philosophie américaine signifie repenser l'ordinaire en dehors de ces deux tendances : recommencer la philosophie, non pas à zéro, mais avec ce qu'on a sous la main, sous les yeux, et qui reste à découvrir, ou à inventer.

Recommencer La Philosophie: Stanley Cavell Et La Philosophie En Amerique (Philosophie Du Present) (French Edition)

Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin

La démocratie. Une idée force

Rousseau, Dominique

MARE MARTIN

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