This volume is a collection of readings from the work of Stanley Cavell, an influential 20th-century American philosopher. It provides those who are unfamiliar with Cavell's work with an overview of its strategic purpose, its central themes and its argumentative development. The readings are taken from every one of the major fields in which Cavell has been involved - aesthetics, the philosophy of religion, the philosophy of Wittgenstein, Austin, Emerson, literary criticism, film theory and psychoanalysis - and have been chosen to reflect the interdisciplinary nature of his thought. The reader also includes brief editorial introductions to each individual piece to guide the reader through the key themes and phases, and to display the unity and the steady evolution of Cavell's thought. A previously unpublished Cavell essay on Wittgenstein is included as an epilogue.
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A solid introduction to Cavell,
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You can skip this book and just read "Pursuits of Happiness" and "The Claim of Reason," two masterpieces by this author. But if you want a little more Cavell after "POH" but need to get your feet wet before plunging into the long, long-winded, and fiendishly difficult "COR," this book is well worth purchasing. You will be treated to Cavell's pet obsessions (e.g. all of modern man's problems can be traced to our all-too-human need to transcend the human condition, so that what we really need from philosophy is to learn how to reconcile ourselves to "the ordinary"), his insane but compelling readings of Shakespeare (up there with Freud's case histories in their interpretive gusto and zaniness), and the quirky, surrealist sense of humour, borrowed from his great influence, Wittgenstein, with which he attacks epistemological problems. As a bonus, you will get a wildly eccentric list (in "Moral Perfectionism") of great philosophical and literary works in which Cavell is quite sure his own obsessions are anticipated, which, if you're like me, you will devote years to working your way through. Cavell is eloquent, nuts, passionate, irritating, moving, and never boring (even when he's droning on and on). One of my favourite authors.
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Stanley Cavell is a Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University and the author of two wonderful books (PURSUITS OF HAPPINESS and THE SENSES OF WALDEN). He is also the author of, at least, one unreadable book: THE CLAIM OF REASON. All three are adequately represented in this collection. In addition, the editor includes a fine essay on Kierkegaard. Sadly, one of Cavell's most famous pieces, the early essay on EXISTENTIALISM AND ANALYTICAL PHILOSOPHY was excluded. Overall, there's some of Cavell at his best, and at his worst, in these pages (at times his prose can get pretty ugly).
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This extract forms the concluding third of the last chapter of Part One of The Claim of Reason; in it, Cavell develops one fundamental aspect of the distinctive understanding of Wittgenstein's later philosophy which will ground his treatment of skepticism and related matters in the remaining three parts of the book, as well as all the topics and texts with which his writings engage. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
unattained self, remarriage comedy, skeptical impulse, remarriage comedies, perspicuous presentation, grand laughs, grammatical investigation, whose doll, father tongue, philosophical skepticism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lady Macbeth, Aunt Patsy, New York, The Claim of Reason, Irene Dunne, Dixie Belle, Must We Mean What We Say, Stanley Cavell, Moral Perfectionism, Cary Grant, Philosophical Investigations, Pursuits of Happiness, The Philadelphia Story, Bringing Up Baby, King Lear, The Winter's Tale, Adam's Rib, Emersonian Perfectionism, New England, The Avoidance of Love, Barbara Vance, Being Odd, Michael Fried, Book of Essays, Called Thinking New!
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This extract forms the concluding third of the last chapter of Part One of The Claim of Reason; in it, Cavell develops one fundamental aspect of the distinctive understanding of Wittgenstein's later philosophy which will ground his treatment of skepticism and related matters in the remaining three parts of the book, as well as all the topics and texts with which his writings engage. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
unattained self, remarriage comedy, skeptical impulse, remarriage comedies, perspicuous presentation, grand laughs, grammatical investigation, whose doll, father tongue, philosophical skepticism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lady Macbeth, Aunt Patsy, New York, The Claim of Reason, Irene Dunne, Dixie Belle, Must We Mean What We Say, Stanley Cavell, Moral Perfectionism, Cary Grant, Philosophical Investigations, Pursuits of Happiness, The Philadelphia Story, Bringing Up Baby, King Lear, The Winter's Tale, Adam's Rib, Emersonian Perfectionism, New England, The Avoidance of Love, Barbara Vance, Being Odd, Michael Fried, Book of Essays, Called Thinking New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Must We Mean What We Say?: A Book of Essays by Stanley Cavell on 12 pages
- Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Norton Library) by Sigmund Freud on 5 pages
- What Is Called Thinking? by Martin Heidegger on 5 pages
- The Imp of The Perverse by Edgar Allan Poe on 5 pages
- The Genealogy of Morals (Dover Thrift Editions) by Friedrich Nietzsche on 4 pages
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- Everyday Life: Theories and Practices from Surrealism to the Present by Michael Sheringham on page 230, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Redeeming Nietzsche: On the Piety of Unbelief by Giles Fraser in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Primo Levi's Ordinary Virtues: From Testimony to Ethics by Robert S. C. Gordon on page 39, and Back Matter
- The New Wittgenstein by Alice Crary on page 256, and Back Matter
- Thinking in the Ruins: Wittgenstein and Santayana on Contingency (The Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy) by Michael P. Hodges in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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