PHILOSOPHY AS TRAGEDY OR WHAT WORDS WON'T GIVE |
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Authors: | GRAHAM WARD |
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Affiliation: | Religions and Theology, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK, graham.ward@manchester.ac.uk |
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Abstract: | This article examines Cavell's problematic understanding of scepticism and the knowledge of other minds with respect to his long preoccupation with tragedy. I point to the meta‐philosophical questions Cavell continually raises but fails to address such that a philosophy as tragedy is frequently announced. Taking the same meta‐philosophical questions raised by the inability of words to give us access to certain knowledge, I then rethink this problematic theologically. I show the way Cavell hints at a Christology and a doctrine of analogy neither of which he develops. In developing these two theologoumenon I make some observations on the relationship between theology, philosophy and the endemic potential of the tragic. |
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