In his "Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage" (1981) as well as in "Contesting Tears" (1997), Stanley Cavell has convincingly argued that the question of marriage—“is it better to be alone than in pair?”—has the philosophical legitimacy of classic questions such as “What can I know?” and “Why is there something instead of nothi...
Film philosophy can make an approximation between its own procedure, the cinephile condition and the elaboration of afilm canon. The responsibility of the European Commission to favor a film canon that is present in the school curriculum must take into account the different ways of conceiving the canon. While assessing the contributions of the theo...
Le 14 décembre 2019, dans le cadre du Workshop “Political Education for Human Transformation", Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, 17 rue de la Sorbonne, 75005 Paris, escalier C, 1er étage, salle LalandeTaking the phenomenon of the cinematographic artialisation of recent revolutionary and terrorist behavior seriously encourages us to look in some...
Parents are generally the first to speak to their children. This sharing of a language is more than just helping children to develop their linguistic skills, or to enlarge their vocabulary, or to negotiate rules. It is a sharing of a world, or at least inviting their children into that world. Drawing on Stanley Cavell’s understanding of Wittgenstei...
I propose a reading of Iris Murdoch's A Word Child and show how hernovel resonates with important themes in Ludwig Wittgenstein'sPhilosophical Investigations, as read by Stanley Cavell, such as theidealization of language. I highlight the ethical significance of such anidealization.