Responsiveness as responsibility: Cavell's reading of Wittgenstein andKing Lear as a source for an ethics of interpersonal relationships

Philosophy & Social Criticism

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 81-107

  Sparti, Davide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

acknowledgment; Cavell; ethics; skepticism; Wittgenstein

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992850879     PISSN: 01914537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/019145370002600506     Document Type: Article

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