Must we mean what we say? : a book of essays / Stanley Cavell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cavell, Stanley, 1926-2018.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Modern.

Physical Description:

xxix, 365 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1976.

Summary:

This is a remarkable, and now famous, volume of philosophical studies. The essays span and connect topics in the philosophy of language, aesthetics, and the criticism of literature, drama and music. The style and the range and integration of interests are alike individual, ambitious and arresting. The book is a distinguished personal work, of permanent interest and value.

Contents:

Foreword: An Audience for Philosophy xvii

I Must We Mean What We Say? 1

II The Availability of Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy 44

III Aesthetic Problems of Modern Philosophy 73

IV Austin at Criticism 97

V Ending the Waiting Game: A Reading of Beckett's Endgame 115

VI Kierkegaard's On Authority and Revelation 163

VII Music Discomposed 180

VIII A Matter of Meaning It 213

IX Knowing and Acknowledging 238

X The Avoidance of Love: A Reading of King Lear 267.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521211166.

OCLC:

2175078