Cavell’s Wager, and Ours: Thinking With and Against Cavell in Dark Times
Philosophy & Social Criticism: An International, Interdisciplinary Journal
Published online on May 27, 2026
Abstract
Philosophy & Social Criticism, Ahead of Print.
In both 1990’sConditions Handsome and Unhandsomeand 2004’sCities of Words, Stanley Cavell presents his contribution to democratic thought as an addendum to John Rawls’sTheory of Justice. In this essay I consider the implications of this for Cavell’s ...
In both 1990’sConditions Handsome and Unhandsomeand 2004’sCities of Words, Stanley Cavell presents his contribution to democratic thought as an addendum to John Rawls’sTheory of Justice. In this essay I consider the implications of this for Cavell’s ...