Here and there : sites of philosophy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cavell, Stanley.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism (Philosophy).

Philosophy, Modern.

Psychoanalysis and philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2022.

Summary:

The first posthumous collection from the writings of Stanley Cavell, shedding new light on the distinctive vision and intellectual trajectory of an influential American philosopher. For Stanley Cavell, philosophy was a matter of responding to the voices of others. Throughout his career, he articulated the belief that words spring to life in concrete circumstances of speech: the significance and power of language depend on the occasions that elicit it. When Cavell died in 2018, he left behind some of his own most powerful language—a plan for a book collecting numerous unpublished essays and lectures, as well as papers printed in niche journals. Here and There presents this manuscript, with thematically relevant additions, for the first time. These writings, composed between the 1980s and the 2000s, reflect Cavell’s expansive interests and distinctive philosophical method. The collection traverses all the major themes of his immense body of work: modernity, psychoanalysis, the human voice, moral perfectionism, tragedy, skepticism. Cavell’s rich and cohesive philosophical vision unites his wide-ranging engagement with poets, critics, psychoanalysts, social scientists, and fellow philosophers. In Here and There, readers will find dialogues with Shakespeare, Thoreau, Wittgenstein, Freud, Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Wallace Stevens, Veena Das, and Peter Kivy, among others. One of the collection’s most striking features is an ensemble of five pieces on music, constituting Cavell’s first discussion of the subject since the mid-1960s. Edited by philosophers who have been invested in Cavell’s work for decades, Here and There not only gathers the strands of a writing life but also maps its author’s intellectual journeys. In these works, Cavell models what it looks like to examine seriously one’s own passions and to forge new communities through unexpected conversations.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Editors’ Introduction

Prologue: A Site for Philosophy?

Part I. Departures

1. Time after Time

2. The World as Things: Collecting Thoughts on Collecting

3. The Division of Talent

4. To Place Wittgenstein

5. Notes after Austin

Part II. Assignments

6. Silences Noises Voices

7. Benjamin and Wittgenstein: Signals and Affinities

8. Remains to Be Seen: Initial Responses to The Arcades Project

9. Finding Words: Adam Phillips’s Ordinary Language Psychoanalysis

10. Welcoming Jean Laplanche

11. On a Psychoanalytical Response to Faulkner’s Form

12. Notes Mostly about Empathy

13. Comments on Veena Das, “Language and Body”

14. Foreword to Veena Das, Life and Words

15. Foreword to Northrop Frye, A Natural Perspective

16. In the Meantime

17. Who Disappoints Whom? Allan Bloom at Harvard

18. Preface to the Italian Edition of The Claim of Reason

19. Reflections on Wallace Stevens at Mount Holyoke

20. Foreword to Qu’est-ce que la philosophie américaine?

Part III. Music

21. An Understanding with Music

22. Kivy on Idomeneo

23. Philosophy and the Unheard

24. Impressions of Revolution

25. A Scale of Eternity

Epilogue: Bon Voyage

Appendix: Draft Preface to Here and There

Notes

Editors’ Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Cavell, Stanley Here and There

ISBN:

0-674-27643-4

OCLC:

1305842629