Anticipations of freedom : engaging Stanley Cavell / Richard Eldridge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eldridge, Richard, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cavell, Stanley, 1926-2018.

Cavell, Stanley.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2026]

Summary:

'Anticipations of Freedom' is an elaboration, defense, and extension of philosopher Stanley Cavell's work. It examines how human beings may better understand themselves and more fruitfully reshape their commitments through their production and reception of artistic and linguistic expressions (poetry, film, music, and ordinary language).

Contents:

Introduction : anticipations of freedom

Between acknowledgment and avoidance

Cavell and the achievement of selfhood

Conceptual analysis, practical commitment, and ordinary language

Cavell on American philosophy and the idea of America

Cavell and the American jeremiad

Cavell and Hölderlin on human immigrancy

Criticism and the risk of the self : Stanley Cavell’s modernism and Elizabeth Bishop’s

“This most human predicament” : Cavell on language, intention, and desire in Shakespeare

How movies think : Cavell on film as a medium of art

Imagining life together : psychosexual intimacy, social roles, and contemporary comedies of remarriage

Modernity, skepticism, and meaning in The World Viewed

Cavell as halted traveler : the experience of music

Cavell and Day for Night

Epilogue : paradoxes and possibilities of freedom, social and individual.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed March 23, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Eldridge, Richard. Anticipations of freedom

ISBN:

9780197841785

0197841783

9780197841778

0197841775

OCLC:

1564155102

Publisher Number:

CIPO000331392

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license