...will take place (in particular, not the grasping of universals nor the grasping of books of rules) ... It is a vision as simple as it is difficult, and as...difficult as it is (and because it is) terrifying. (MWM, 52) One can see here the movement that is accomplished in Cavell from the question of shared...

...when an utterance is an assertion, when an appeal, when an explanation — all the whirl of organism Wittgenstein calls "forms of life." Human speech and activity, sanity and community, rest on nothing more, but nothing less, than this. It is a vision as simple as it is difficult, and as difficult...

...when an utterance is an assertion, when an appeal, when an explanation — all the whirl of organism Wittgenstein calls "forms of life." Human speech and...difficult, and as difficult as it is (and because it is) terrifying.84 What is it that keeps communication on track? "Nothing but shared forms of life." But,...

...when an utterance is an assertion, when an appeal, when an explanation - all the whirl of organism Wittgenstein calls ,forms of life'. Human speech and...more, but nothing less, than this. It is a vision äs simple äs it is difficult, and difficult äs it is (and because it is) terrifying.1 Cavell macht...

...assertion, when an appeal, when an explanation — all the whirl of organism Wittgenstein calls "form of life." Human speech and activity, sanity and community,...difficult as it is (and because it is) terrifying. 29. Heidegger develops this idea in Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics, trans. William McNeill and...