From “ghost in the machine” to “spiritual automaton”: Philosophical meditation in Wittgenstein, Cavell, and Levinas

This essay discusses Stanley Cavell’s remarkable interpretation of Emmanuel Levinas’s thought against the background of his own ongoing engagement with Wittgenstein, Austin, and the problem of other minds. This unlikely debate, the only extensive discussion of Levinas by Cavell in his long philosoph...

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Main Author: Vries, Hent de 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Nature B. V 2006
In: International journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2006, Volume: 60, Issue: 1, Pages: 77-97
Further subjects:B Spiritual automaton
B other minds
B Philosophical meditation
B Levinas
B Skepticism
B Cavell
B Wittgenstein
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