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Pursuits of Happiness

Pursuits of Happiness
Author: Stanley Cavell
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1981
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780674739062

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Looks at seven classic romantic comedies of the thirties and forties, and compares what each film expresses about marriage, interdependence, equality, and sexual roles.


Must We Mean What We Say?

Must We Mean What We Say?
Author: Stanley Cavell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1316425363

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In this classic collection of wide-ranging and interdisciplinary essays, Stanley Cavell explores a remarkably broad range of philosophical issues from politics and ethics to the arts and philosophy. The essays explore issues as diverse as the opposing approaches of 'analytic' and 'Continental' philosophy, modernism, Wittgenstein, abstract expressionism and Schoenberg, Shakespeare on human needs, the difficulties of authorship, Kierkegaard and post-Enlightenment religion. Presented in a fresh twenty-first century series livery, and including a specially commissioned preface, written by Stephen Mulhall, illuminating its continuing importance and relevance to philosophical enquiry, this influential work is now available for a new generation of readers.


Philosophy the Day After Tomorrow

Philosophy the Day After Tomorrow
Author: Stanley Cavell
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2005
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780674022324

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Seeking for philosophy the same spirit and assurance conveyed by artists like Fred Astaire, Cavell presents essays exploring the meaning of grace and gesture in film and on stage, in language and in life. Critical to the renaissance in American thought Cavell hopes to provoke is the recognition of the centrality of the “ordinary” to American life.


The World Viewed

The World Viewed
Author: Stanley Cavell
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1979-01-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0674253353

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Stanley Cavell looks closely at America's most popular art and our perceptions of it. His explorations of Hollywood's stars, directors, and most famous films—as well as his fresh look at Godard, Bergman, and other great European directors—will be of lasting interest to movie-viewers and intelligent people everywhere.


Cavell on Film

Cavell on Film
Author: Stanley Cavell
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2005-04-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780791464328

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Stanley Cavell's most important writings on cinema, collected together for the first time in one volume.


Cities of Words

Cities of Words
Author: Stanley Cavell
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2005-10-31
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0674971272

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This book--which presents a course of lectures Cavell presented several times toward the end of his teaching career at Harvard--links masterpieces of moral philosophy and classic Hollywood comedies to fashion a new way of looking at our lives and learning to live with ourselves.


The Claim of Reason

The Claim of Reason
Author: Stanley Cavell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 544
Release: 1999-07-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0190284935

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The first three parts of this book deal with the tension between ordinary language philosophy (as envisioned in the writings of J.L. Austin and the later Wittgenstein) and the 'tradition.' In the fourth part the author explores the problem of skepticism and takes a broad view of its consequences.


Stanley Cavell and the Education of Grownups

Stanley Cavell and the Education of Grownups
Author: Naoko Saito
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2012
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0823234738

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What could it mean to speak of philosophy as the education of grownups? This book takes Cavell's enigmatic phrase as a provocation to explore the themes of education that run throughout his work-from his response to Wittgenstein, Austin, and ordinary-language philosophy, to his readings of Thoreau and of the moral perfectionism he identifies with Emerson, to his discussions of literature and film. Hilary Putnam has described Cavell as not only one of the most creative thinkers of today but as one of the few contemporary philosophers to explore philosophy as education. Cavell's sustained examination of the nature of philosophy cannot be separated from his preoccupation with what it is to teach and to learn. This is the first book to address theimportance of education in Cavell's work and its essays are framed by two new pieces by Cavell himself.Together these texts combine to show what it means to read Cavell, and simultaneously what it means to read philosophically, in itself a part of our education as grownups.


This New Yet Unapproachable America

This New Yet Unapproachable America
Author: Stanley Cavell
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2013-07-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 022603741X

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Stanley Cavell is a titan of the academic world; his work in aesthetics and philosophy has shaped both fields in the United States over the past forty years. In this brief yet enlightening collection of lectures, Cavell investigates the work of two of his most tried-and-true subjects: Emerson and Wittgenstein. Beginning with an introductory essay that places his own work in a philosophical and historical context, Cavell guides his reader through his thought process when composing and editing his lectures while making larger claims about the influence of institutions on philosophers, and the idea of progress within the discipline of philosophy. In “Declining Decline,” Cavell explains how language modifies human existence, looking specifically at the culture of Wittgenstein’s writings. He draws on Emerson, Thoreau, and many others to make his case that Wittgenstein can indeed be viewed as a “philosopher of culture.” In his final lecture, “Finding as Founding,” Cavell writes in response to Emerson’s “Experience,” and explores the tension between the philosopher and language—that he or she must embrace language as his or her “form of life,” while at the same time surpassing its restrictions. He compares finding new ideas to discovering a previously unknown land in an essay that unabashedly celebrates the power and joy of philosophical thought.


Little Did I Know

Little Did I Know
Author: Stanley Cavell
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 584
Release: 2010-07-23
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0804775087

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An autobiography in the form of a philosophical diary, Little Did I Know's underlying motive is to describe the events of a life that produced the kind of writing associated with Stanley Cavell's name. Cavell recounts his journey from early childhood in Atlanta, Georgia, through musical studies at UC Berkeley and Julliard, his subsequent veering off into philosophy at UCLA, his Ph.D. studies at Harvard, and his half century of teaching. Influential people from various fields figure prominently or in passing over the course of this memoir. J.L. Austin, Ernest Bloch, Roger Sessions, Thomas Kuhn, Robert Lowell, Rogers Albritton, Seymour Shifrin, John Rawls, Bernard Williams, W. V. O. Quine, and Jacques Derrida are no longer with us; but Cavell also pays homage to the living: Michael Fried, John Harbison, Rose Mary Harbison, Kurt Fischer, Milton Babbitt, Thompson Clarke, John Hollander, Hilary Putnam, Sandra Laugier, Belle Randall, and Terrence Malick. The drift of his narrative also registers the decisiveness of the relatively unknown and the purely accidental. Cavell's life has produced a trail of some eighteen published books that range from treatments of individual writers like Wittgenstein, Austin, Emerson, Thoreau, Heidegger, Shakespeare, and Beckett to studies in aesthetics, epistemology, moral and political philosophy, cinema, opera, and religion.