Notes on readings for this week.

Two repetitions of things I said in class, as far as readings go for this week:

(1) Reread the Wittgenstein, be prepared to talk about it. Stanley Cavell was deeply influenced by Wittgenstein (he wrote his doctoral dissertation on the Philosophical Investigations). Having a feeling for how Wittgenstein proceeds (by suggestive fragments, and strangely obscure questions) will help you get what Cavell is doing in his essay(s).

(2) You might consider starting with (& soon, at that) the excerpt from Cavell's "Music Discomposed." It is, as I put it rather unfortunately in class, his attempt to tell us what it feels like to be inside Kant (yuk yuk). It's a description of what a reflective judgment of taste feels like, or one version of it. The selection from "Music Discomposed" is included at the end of the Cavell PDF (most of which is "Aesthetic Problems").

More on Cavell soon(ish).

And one more thing: if you can't manage to get through all the reading this week, the lowest priority is the Eve Sedgwick. It's a fantastic essay with a fabulous title, but if we're not going to get to something, that's the thing we're not going to get to.