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This book examines the myriad identities and portrayals of Edith Cavell, as they have been constructed and handed down by propagandists, biographers and artists. Cavell was first introduced to the British public through a series of Foreign Office statements which claimed to establish the “facts” of her case. Her own voice, along with those of her family, colleagues and friends, were muted, as a monolithic image of a national heroine and martyr emerged. The book identifies two main areas of tension in her commemoration: firstly, the contrast between complexity of her own behaviour and motivations and the simplicity of the “Cavell Legend” that was constructed around her; and, secondly, the mismatch between the attempts of individuals and professional organisations to commemorate her life and work, and the public construction of a “heroine” who could be of value to the nation state.

Social history. --- Great Britain-History. --- Military history. --- Civilization-History. --- Women. --- Social History. --- History of Britain and Ireland. --- History of Military. --- Cultural History. --- Women's Studies. --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Military historiography --- Military history --- Wars --- Historiography --- History --- Naval history --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Social history --- Sociology --- Great Britain—History. --- Civilization—History. --- Nurses - Great Britain - Biography --- British - Belgium - Biography --- World War, 1914-1918 - Belgium - Medical care --- World War, 1914-1918 - Atrocities --- Nurses - Belgium - Biography --- Military Medicine - history - Belgium --- Military Medicine - history - Great Britain --- War Crimes - Belgium --- War Crimes - Great Britain --- World War I - Belgium --- Cavell, Edith, - 1865-1915 --- Cavell, Edith, - 1865-1915 - Trials, litigation, etc. --- Cavell, Edith, - 1865-1915 - Death and burial --- Nurses --- British --- World War, 1914-1918 --- Military Medicine --- War Crimes --- World War I

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This volume brings out the varieties of forms of philosophical skepticism that have continued to preoccupy philosophers for the past of couple of centuries, as well as the specific varieties of philosophical response that these have engendered - above all, in the work of those who have sought to take their cue from Kant, Wittgenstein, or Cavell - and to illuminate how these philosophical approaches are related to and bear upon one another. The philosophers brought together in this volume are united by the thought that a proper appreciation of the depth of the skeptical challenge must reveal it to be deeply disquieting, in the sense that skepticism threatens not just some set of theoretical commitments, but also-and fundamentally-our very sense of self, world, and other. Second, that skepticism is the proper starting point for any serious attempt to make sense of what philosophy is, and to gauge the prospects of philosophical progress.

Philosophical anthropology --- Theory of knowledge --- Kant, Immanuel --- Wittgenstein, Ludwig J.J. --- Cavell, Edith --- Wittgenstein, Ludwig --- Skepticism. --- Scepticism --- Unbelief --- Agnosticism --- Belief and doubt --- Free thought --- Kant, Immanuel, --- Wittgenstein, Ludwig, --- Cavell, Stanley, --- Wei-tʻe-ken-ssu-tʻan, --- Wei-tʻe-ken-ssu-tʻan, Lu-te-wei-hsi, --- Wittgenstein, L. --- Vitgenshteĭn, L., --- Wei-ken-ssu-tʻan, --- Pitʻŭgensyutʻain, --- Vitgenshteĭn, Li︠u︡dvig, --- Weitegenshitan, --- Wittgenstein, Ludovicus, --- Vitgenshtaĭn, Ludvig, --- ויטגנשטיין, לודוויג --- 维特根斯坦, --- Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann, --- Kant, I. --- Kānt, ʻAmmānūʼīl, --- Kant, Immanouel, --- Kant, Immanuil, --- Kʻantʻŭ, --- Kant, --- Kant, Emmanuel, --- Ḳanṭ, ʻImanuʼel, --- Kant, E., --- Kant, Emanuel, --- Cantơ, I., --- Kant, Emanuele, --- Kant, Im. --- קאנט --- קאנט, א. --- קאנט, עמנואל --- קאנט, עמנואל, --- קאנט, ע. --- קנט --- קנט, עמנואל --- קנט, עמנואל, --- كانت ، ايمانوئل --- كنت، إمانويل، --- カントイマニユエル, --- Kangde, --- 康德, --- Kanṭ, Īmānwīl, --- كانط، إيمانويل --- Kant, Manuel, --- Meaning, knowledge, Kant, Immanuel, Cavell, Stanley, Wittgenstein, Ludwig.