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Over the past few decades there has been a turn toward ‘the everyday’ in the social sciences and humanities. For some authors, this turn is about making the everyday a new repository of authority of some sort, political, social, cultural or otherwise. For others, however, any turn toward the everyday interrupts any such evaluation. Focusing upon Stanley Cavell and the philosophical lineage that he continues from Emerson, Nietzsche, Thoreau and Wittgenstein, this paper examines Cavell’s interest in the menace and power of scepticism as key to understanding the everyday as a lived experience. As an introduction to this particular part of Cavell’s work for many Geographers, the paper puts Cavell in relation to more familiar approaches to the everyday, including de Certeau, critical Human Geography, non-representational theory, affect theory, psychoanalysis and pragmatism.
Author(s): Pugh J
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Geoforum
Year: 2017
Volume: 79
Pages: 36-45
Print publication date: 01/02/2017
Online publication date: 23/12/2016
Acceptance date: 10/12/2016
Date deposited: 06/01/2017
ISSN (print): 0016-7185
ISSN (electronic): 1872-9398
Publisher: Elsevier
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.12.008
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.12.008
Notes: This paper puts the work of the philosopher Stanley Cavell into a critical relationship with a range of contemporary key debates in Human Geography (including de Certeau, critical Human Geography, non-representational theory, affect theory, psychoanalysis and pragmatism). The argument is that, pace much contemporary work in these influential fields, Cavell's philosophy keeps the sceptical problem of other minds alive and important. The paper reflects in detail how this generates a distinctive and useful way of approaching to the 'everyday' as a site of analysis and engagement hitherto not widely engaged in Human Geography.
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