In Quest Of The Ordinary: Lines Of Skepticism And Romanticism

At Berkeley The Mrs. Williams Beckman Lectures (1983) -- The Philosopher In American Life (toward Thoreau And Emerson) -- Emerson, Coleridge, Kant (terms As Conditions) -- Texts Of Recovery (coleridge, Wordsworth, Heidegger...) Recounting Gains, Showing Losses (a Reading Of The Winter's Tale) -- At Stanford Conference: Reconstructing Individualism (1984) -- Being Odd, Getting Even (descartes, Emerson, Poe) -- Postscripts -- A. Skepticism And A Word Concerning Deconstruction -- B. Poe's Perversity And The Imp (ulse) Of Skepticism -- C. The Skeptical And The Metaphorical -- At Stanford The Tanner Lecture (1986) -- The Uncanniness Of The Ordinary -- At Vienna Celebratory Lecture (1986) -- The Fantastic Of Philosophy Stanley Cavell. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.