Contending with Stanley Cavell

Contending with Stanley Cavell

Author: Stanley Cavell

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2005-02-10

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 0195175689

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This collection showcases Stanley Cavell's work, while illustrating the variety of Cavell's interests: in the ordinary language philosophy of Wittgenstein and Austin, in film criticism and theory, in literature, psychoanalysis, and the American transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.


Contending with Stanley Cavell

Contending with Stanley Cavell

Author: Russell B. Goodman

Publisher:

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780197730171

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Stanley Cavell has been a brilliant, idiosyncratic, & controversial presence in American philosophy, literary criticism & cultural studies for years. This collection showcases his new work.


Contending with Stanley Cavell

Contending with Stanley Cavell

Author: Russell B. Goodman

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2005-02-10

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 0190291893

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Stanley Cavell has been a brilliant, idiosyncratic, and controversial presence in American philosophy, literary criticism, and cultural studies for years. Even as he continues to produce new writing of a high standard -- an example of which is included in this collection -- his work has elicited responses from a new generation of writers in Europe and America. This collection showcases this new work, while illustrating the variety of Cavell's interests: in the "ordinary language" philosophy of Wittgenstein and Austin, in film criticism and theory, in literature, psychoanalysis, and the American transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. The collection also reprints Richard Rorty's early review of Cavell's magnum opus, The Claim of Reason (1979), and it concludes with Cavell's substantial set of responses to the essays, a highlight of which is his engagement with Rorty.


Philosophy the Day After Tomorrow

Philosophy the Day After Tomorrow

Author: Stanley Cavell

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780674022324

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Seeking for philosophy the same spirit and assurance conveyed by artists like Fred Astaire, Cavell presents essays exploring the meaning of grace and gesture in film and on stage, in language and in life. Critical to the renaissance in American thought Cavell hopes to provoke is the recognition of the centrality of the “ordinary” to American life.


Stanley Cavell and the Education of Grownups

Stanley Cavell and the Education of Grownups

Author: Naoko Saito

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 0823234738

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What could it mean to speak of philosophy as the education of grownups? This book takes Cavell's enigmatic phrase as a provocation to explore the themes of education that run throughout his work-from his response to Wittgenstein, Austin, and ordinary-language philosophy, to his readings of Thoreau and of the moral perfectionism he identifies with Emerson, to his discussions of literature and film. Hilary Putnam has described Cavell as not only one of the most creative thinkers of today but as one of the few contemporary philosophers to explore philosophy as education. Cavell's sustained examination of the nature of philosophy cannot be separated from his preoccupation with what it is to teach and to learn. This is the first book to address theimportance of education in Cavell's work and its essays are framed by two new pieces by Cavell himself.Together these texts combine to show what it means to read Cavell, and simultaneously what it means to read philosophically, in itself a part of our education as grownups.


Hearing Things

Hearing Things

Author: Timothy Gould

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1998-11-15

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780226305622

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What does philosophy have to do with the human voice? Has contemporary philosophy banished the "voice" from the field of legitimate investigation? Timothy Gould examines these questions through the philosopher most responsible for formulating them, Stanley Cavell. Hearing Things is the first work to treat systematically the relation between Cavell's pervasive authorial voice and his equally powerful, though less discernible, impulse to produce a set of usable philosophical methods. Gould argues that a tension between voice and method unites Cavell's broad and often perplexing range of interests. From Wittgenstein to Thoreau, from Shakespeare to the movies, and from opera to Freud, Gould reveals the connection between the voice within Cavell's writing and the voices Cavell appeals to through the methods of ordinary language philosophy. Within Cavell's extraordinary productivity lies a new sense of philosophical method based on elements of the act of reading. Hearing Things is both an important study of Cavell's work and a major contribution to the construction of American philosophy.


Cavell's Must We Mean What We Say? at 50

Cavell's Must We Mean What We Say? at 50

Author: Greg Chase

Publisher:

Published: 2022-03-10

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1316515257

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An accessible investigation of the importance of Cavell's most famous work for modern and contemporary philosophy and literature.


Philosophical passages

Philosophical passages

Author: Stanley Cavell

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780631192718

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In this most recent collection of his writing, Cavell provides extraordinary careful and sustained readings of Emerson's "Fate", Derrida's response to J. L. Austin in "Signature Event Context", and Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations d.


Stanley Cavell and Literary Skepticism

Stanley Cavell and Literary Skepticism

Author: Michael Fischer

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1989-04-24

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 0226251411

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Cavell is read avidly by students of film, television, painting, and music, but especially by students of literature, for whom he offers major readings of Thoreau. Fischer (English, U. of New Mexico) shows why Cavell's work is also of particular relevance to the controversies surrounding poststructuralist literary theory. Paper edition (0-226-25141-1) is available for $10.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


American Philosophy Before Pragmatism

American Philosophy Before Pragmatism

Author: Russell B. Goodman

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 0199577544

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Russell B. Goodman tells the story of the development of philosophy in America from the mid-18th century to the late 19th century. The key figures in this story, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, the writers of The Federalist, and the romantics (or 'transcendentalists') Emerson and Thoreau, were not professors but men of the world, whose deep formative influence on American thought brought philosophy together with religion, politics, and literature. Goodman considers their work in relation to the philosophers and other thinkers they found important: the deism of John Toland and Matthew Tindal, the moral sense theories of Francis Hutcheson, Adam Smith, and David Hume, the political and religious philosophy of John Locke, the romanticism of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the transcendental idealism of Immanuel Kant. Goodman discusses Edwards's condemnation and Franklin's acceptance of deism, argues that Jefferson was an Epicurean in his metaphysical views