Ends of Life: Forms of Life as the “Ruins of an Enduring Fable”?

This paper addresses the possibility of using Wittgensteinian conception “forms life” (“Lebensformen”) as a potentially transformative philosophical framework that responds to contemporary challenges. These challenges can be understood resulting from parallel discourses “ends”: “nature” and “human”. are relevant, especially, for Cavellian interpretation Lebensformen an expression cultural natural factors. My purpose is show how Cavell’s elaboration maintained against critical pressures exerted by prevailing ends.