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Cavell Reader

Autor Mulhall
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 oct 1996
A personal glimpse inside the mind of a leading philosopher
The Cavell Reader is an introduction to one of the 20th century's most influential American philosophers. Stanley Cavell was well-known for the broad scope of his writing, which is a major theme of this book; topics include aesthetics, psychoanalysis, film theory, literary criticism, religion, Austin, Emerson, Wittgenstein, and more. Presented in a sequence that illustrates Cavell's evolution of thought through key periods and phases, these pieces provide an overview of the man behind the words, and serve as an introduction to his more famous philosophical work.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780631197430
ISBN-10: 0631197435
Pagini: 432
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

Public țintă

advanced undergraduates and graduates in philosophy, cultural studies or literature

Notă biografică

Stephen Mulhall is Reader Philosophy at Essex University and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is the author of On Being in the World.

Cuprins

Acknowledgements vii Introduction 1
Prologue: The Avoidance of Love (The Abdication Scene) 22
1. The Normal and the Natural 31
2. Knowing and Acknowledging 46
3. "The Frog and the Craftsman" 72
4. The Avoidance of Love (External-World Skepticism) 89
5. Ending the Waiting Game 94
6. Music Discomposed 113
7. Kierkegaard's On Authority and Revelation 127
8. The Avoidance of Love (Theater) 143
9. "Photograph, Screen, and Star" 156
10. The Same and Different: The Awful Truth 167
11. Macbeth Appalled 197
12. Psychoanalysis and Cinema: The Melodrama of the Unknown Woman 221
13. The Ordinary as the Uneventful 253
14. Words and Sentences 260
15. Being Odd, Getting Even 295
16. Declining Decline 321
17. Moral Perfectionism 353
Epilogue: The Investigations' Everyday Aesthetics of Itself 369
Stanley Cavell: A Bibliography 1951-1995 390
Index of Themes and Concepts 415
Index of Names and Titles 418

Descriere

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.