Contending with Stanley Cavell
Stanley Cavell has been a brilliant, idiosyncratic, and controversial presence in American philosophy, literary criticism, and cultural studies for years. Even as he continues to produce new writing of a high standard -- an example of which is included in this collection -- his work haselicited responses from a new generation of writers in Europe and America. This collection showcases this new work, while illustrating the variety of Cavell's interests: in the ""ordinary language"" philosophy of Wittgenstein and Austin, in film criticism and theory, in literature, psychoanalysis, andthe America
1 online resource (448 pages)
9780195346534, 019534653X
1048617547
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Contributors
Introduction
1. Cavell on Skepticism
2. On Refusing to Begin
3. Cavell's "Romanticism" and Cavell's Romanticism
4. Cavell and the Concept of America
5. Rethinking the Ordinary: Austin after Cavell
6. Cavell and American Philosophy
7. Guessing the Unseen from the Seen: Stanley Cavell and Film Interpretation
8. The Avoidance of Stanley Cavell
9. Responses
10. Passionate and Performative Utterance: Morals of Encounter
Selected Bibliography
Index