Contending with Stanley Cavell

Oxford University Press

2004

205 pages

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-200) and index

9780195175684

Cavell on skepticism / Richard Rory -- On refusing to begin / Stephen Mulhall -- Cavell's "romanticism" and Cavell's romanticism / Simon Critchley -- Cavell and the concept of America / James Conant -- Rethinking the ordinary : Austin after Cavell / Sandra Laugier -- Cavel and American philosophy / Russell B. Goodman -- Guessing the unseen from the seen : Stanley Cavell and film interpretation / Andrew Klevan -- The avoidance of Stanley Cavell / Garrett Stewart -- Responses / Stanley Cavell -- Passionate and performative utterance : morals of encounter / Stanley Cavell

Review: "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 has elicited 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, and the American transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau." "The collection also reprints Richard Rorty's early review of Cavell's magnum opus, The Claim of Reason (1979), and it concludes with Cavell's substantial set of responses to the essays, a highlight of which is his engagement with Rorty."--BOOK JACKET

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