Reading Cavell / edited by Alice Crary and Sanford Shieh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crary, Alice, 1967-

Shieh, Sanford, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cavell, Stanley, 1926-2018.

Cavell, Stanley.

Physical Description:

x, 262 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Summary:

Stanley Cavell occupies a central and highly distinctive place in twentieth-century philosophy. His influential writings range from painting and music, film studies and literary criticism to Shakespeare, psychoanalysis, Heidegger, Derrida, Wittgenstein and Emerson.

Reading Cavell is a stellar collection of essays by distinguished scholars, covering the full range and implications of Cavell's work. The essays bring to the fore the internal connections in his thought, thus revealing its underlying principles. Cavell's own essay in the volume focuses on his Wittgensteinian vision of language, which informs the other areas of his philosophy. The other contributors extend Cavell's vision of language to investigate his enduring contributions to philosophy: scepticism, exemplification and moral perfectionism.

Together, the essays provide an indispensable resource for understanding Cavell's work, suitable for the seasoned expert as well as those approaching Cavell for the first time.

Contents:

1 The Wittgensteinian event / Stanley Cavell 8

2 Suffering a sea change: crisis, catastrophe, and convention in the theory of speech-acts / Stephen Mulhall 26

3 Austin and the ethics of discourse / Alice Crary 42

4 How to do things with pornography / Nancy Bauer 68

5 The difficulty of reality and the difficulty of philosophy / Cora Diamond 98

6 Philosophy as the education of grownups: Stanley Cavell and skepticism / Hilary Putnam 119

7 The truth of skepticism / Sanford Shieh 131

8 The discovery of the other: Cavell, Fichte, and skepticism / Paul Franks 166

9 On examples, representatives, measures, standards, and the ideal / Eli Friedlander 204

10 Habitual remarriage: the ends of happiness in The Palm Beach Story / Stuart Klawans 218

11 The recovery of Greece and the discovery of America / James Conant 230.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0415346401

0415346398

OCLC:

60705578

Publisher Number:

9780415346405 (hbk. : alk. paper)

9780415346399 (pbk. : alk. paper)