"NOT YET THE LAST" idiom, privacy, and mortality in a paragraph by stanley cavell

• Published in: Angelaki : journal of theoretical humanities Vol. 29; no. 5; pp. 81 - 96
• Main Author: Lash, Dominic
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 02.09.2024
• Subjects: finitude; mortality; ontology; privacy; Stanley Cavell

The final paragraph of the original 1971 edition of Stanley Cavell's book The World Viewed has often been read too hastily; it is, as a result, frequently misunderstood. This article consists of a close reading of this one paragraph, correcting some of these misrepresentations and arguing that...