Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal

Review-Andrew Norris’ Becoming Who We Are: Politics and Practical Philosophy in the Work of Stanley Cavell

Jonathan Havercroft reviews Andrew Norris’ Becoming Who We Are: Politics and Practical Philosophy in the Work of Stanley Cavell, published by Oxford University Press (2017).

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Jonathan Havercroft is Associate Professor of International Political Theory at the University of Southampton. He is the author of Captives of Sovereignty (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and the editor (with Shirin S. Deylami) of The Politics of HBO’s The Wire: Everything is Connected (Routledge, 2015). Among the recent essays he has authored are (with Justin Murphy) “Is the Tea Party Libertarian, Authoritarian, or Something Else?,” Social Science Quarterly (2018), (with Alex Prichard) “Anarchy and International Relations Theory: A Reconsideration,” Journal of International Political Theory (2017), and (with Raymond Duvall) “Challenges of an Agonistic Constructivism for International Relations,” Polity (2017).
Jonathan Havercroft, review of Becoming Who We Are: Politics and Practical Philosophy in the Work of Stanley Cavell by Andrew Norris, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 39:2 (2019), pp. 565-84.

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