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Reading Cavell

Author : Alice Crary,Sanford Shieh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781134280049

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Exploring the work of one of the most eminent figures in contemporary philosophy, this compelling account includes contributions from Hilary Putnam, Cora Diamond, Jim Conant and Stephen Mulhall.

Reading Cavell's The World Viewed

Author : William Rothman,Marian Keane
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : 0814328962

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Reading Cavell's The World Viewed by William Rothman,Marian Keane Pdf

In their thoughtful study of one of Stanley Cavell's greatest yet most neglected books, William Rothman and Marian Keane address this eminent philosopher's many readers, from a variety of disciplines, who have neither understood why he has given film so much attention, nor grasped the place of The World Viewed within the totality of his writings about film. Rothman and Keane also reintroduce The World Viewed to the field of film studies. When the new field entered universities in the late 1960s, it predicated its legitimacy on the conviction that the medium's artistic achievements called for serious criticism and on the corollary conviction that no existing field was capable of the criticism filmed called for. The study of film needed to found itself, intellectually, upon a philosophical investigation of the conditions of the medium and art of film. Such was the challenge The World Viewed took upon itself. However, film studies opted to embrace theory as a higher authority than our experiences of movies, divorcing itself from the philosophical perspective of self-reflection apart from which, The World Viewed teaches, we cannot know what movies mean, or what they are. Rotham and Keane now argue that the poststructuralist theories that dominated film studies for a quarter of a century no longer compel conviction, Cavell's brilliant and beautiful book can provide a sense of liberation to a field that has forsaken its original calling. read in a way that acknowledges its philosophical achievement, The World Viewed can show the field a way to move forward by rediscovering its passion for the art of film. Reading Cavell's The World Viewed will prove invaluable to scholars and students of film and philosophy, and to those in other fields, such as literary studies and American studies, who have found Cavell's work provocative an fruitful.

Reading Cavell's The World Viewed

Author : William Rothman,Marian Keane
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780814340103

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Reading Cavell's The World Viewed by William Rothman,Marian Keane Pdf

In their thoughtful study of one of Stanley Cavell’s greatest yet most neglected books, William Rothman and Marian Keane address this eminent philosopher’s many readers, from a variety of disciplines, who have neither understood why he has given film so much attention, nor grasped the place of The World Viewed within the totality of his writings about film. Rothman and Keane also reintroduce The World Viewed to the field of film studies. When the new field entered universities in the late 1960s, it predicated its legitimacy on the conviction that the medium’s artistic achievements called for serious criticism and on the corollary conviction that no existing field was capable of the criticism filmed called for. The study of film needed to found itself, intellectually, upon a philosophical investigation of the conditions of the medium and art of film. Such was the challenge The World Viewed took upon itself. However, film studies opted to embrace theory as a higher authority than our experiences of movies, divorcing itself from the philosophical perspective of self-reflection apart from which, The World Viewed teaches, we cannot know what movies mean, or what they are. Rotham and Keane now argue that the poststructuralist theories that dominated film studies for a quarter of a century no longer compel conviction, Cavell’s brilliant and beautiful book can provide a sense of liberation to a field that has forsaken its original calling. read in a way that acknowledges its philosophical achievement, The World Viewed can show the field a way to move forward by rediscovering its passion for the art of film. Reading Cavell’s The World Viewed will prove invaluable to scholars and students of film and philosophy, and to those in other fields, such as literary studies and American studies, who have found Cavell’s work provocative and fruitful.

The World Viewed

Author : Stanley Cavell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780674253353

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The World Viewed by Stanley Cavell Pdf

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.

Reading Cavell

Author : Alice Crary,Sanford Shieh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134280032

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Reading Cavell by Alice Crary,Sanford Shieh Pdf

Alongside Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam and Jacques Derrida, Stanley Cavell is arguably one of the best-known philosophers in the world. This state-of-the-art collection explores the work of this original and interesting figure who has already been the subject of a number of books, conferences and Phd theses. A philosopher whose work encompasses a broad range of interests, such as Wittgenstein, scepticism in philosophy, the philosophy of art and film, Shakespeare, and philosophy of mind and language, Cavell has also written much about Henry Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Including contributions from Hilary Putnam, Cora Diamond, Jim Conant and Stephen Mulhall, this book is a must-have for libraries and students alike.

Emerson’s Transcendental Etudes

Author : Stanley Cavell,David Justin Hodge
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0804745439

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Emerson’s Transcendental Etudes by Stanley Cavell,David Justin Hodge Pdf

This book is Stanley Cavell’s definitive expression on Emerson. Over the past thirty years, Cavell has demonstrated that he is the most emphatic and provocative philosophical critic of Emerson that America has yet known. The sustained effort of that labor is drawn together here for the first time into a single volume, which also contains two previously unpublished essays and an introduction by Cavell that reflects on this book and the history of its emergence. Students and scholars working in philosophy, literature, American studies, history, film studies, and political theory can now more easily access Cavell’s luminous and enduring work on Emerson. Such engagement should be further complemented by extensive indices and annotations. If we are still in doubt whether America has expressed itself philosophically, there is perhaps no better space for inquiry than reading Cavell reading Emerson.

Stanley Cavell, Literature, and Film

Author : Andrew Taylor,Áine Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136156335

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Stanley Cavell, Literature, and Film by Andrew Taylor,Áine Kelly Pdf

This is the first book to offer a thorough examination of the relationship that Stanley Cavell’s celebrated philosophical work has to the ways in which the United States has been imagined and articulated in its literature. Establishing the contours of Cavell’s most significant readings of American philosophical and cultural activity, the volume explores how his philosophy and the kind of reading it demands have an important relation to broader considerations of the American national imaginary. Focused, coherent, and original essays from a wide range of philosophers and critics consider how his investigations of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, for example, represent a sustained engagement with the ways in which philosophy might provide us with new ways of thinking and of living. This is the first detailed and comprehensive treatment of "America" as a category of enquiry in Cavell’s writing, engaging with the terms of Cavell’s various configurations of the nation and offering readings of American texts that illustrate the possibilities that Cavell’s work has, in turn, for literary and film criticism. This study of the role played by philosophy in the articulation of the American self-imaginary highlights the ways in which the reading of literature, and the practice of philosophy, are conjoined in the ethical and political project of national self-definition.

The Ironist and the Romantic

Author : Áine Mahon
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472569523

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The Ironist and the Romantic by Áine Mahon Pdf

At the time of his death in 2007, Richard Rorty was widely acclaimed as one of the world's most influential contemporary thinkers. Stanley Cavell, who has been a leading intellectual figure from the 1960s to the present, has been just as philosophically influential as Rorty though perhaps not as politically divisive. Both philosophers have developed from analytic to post-analytical thought, both move between philosophy, literature and cultural politics, and both re-establish American philosophical traditions in a new and nuanced key. The Ironist and the Romantic: Reading Richard Rorty and Stanley Cavell finds the sound of Rorty's cheerful pragmatism strikingly at odds with the anxious romanticism of Cavell. Beginning from this tonal discord, and moving through comprehensive comparative analysis on the topics of scepticism, American philosophy, literature, writing style and politics, this book presents the work of its central figures in a novel and mutually illuminating perspective. Áine Mahon's unique and original comparative reading will be of interest not only to those working on Rorty and Cavell but to anyone concerned with the current state of American philosophy.

Inheriting Stanley Cavell

Author : David LaRocca
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501358197

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Inheriting Stanley Cavell by David LaRocca Pdf

Some of the people who knew Stanley Cavell best--or know his work most intimately--are gathered in Inheriting Stanley Cavell to lend critical insight into the once and future legacy of this American titan of thought. Former students, colleagues, long-time friends, as well as distant admirers, explore moments when their personal experiences of Cavell's singular philosophical and literary illuminations have, as he put it, “risen to the level of philosophical significance.” Many of the memories, dreams, and reflections on offer in this volume carry with them a welcome register of the autobiographical, expressing--much as Cavell did through his own writing--how the personal can become philosophical and thus provide a robust mode for the making of meaning and the clarifying of the human condition. Here, in varied styles and through a range of dynamic content, authors engage the lingering question of inheriting philosophy in whatever form it might take, and what it means to think about inheritance and enact it.

Stanley Cavell's American Dream

Author : Lawrence F. Rhu
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0823225968

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Stanley Cavell's American Dream by Lawrence F. Rhu Pdf

This book states that, after Cavell's celebrated reading of 'King Lear' turned into a nightmarish meditation on Vietnam, he found a more audible voice. Here, the poetry of ideas and presence of mind that animate Cavell's writing receive readings attuned to the spirit of their composition and its enlivening powers.

The Cavell Reader

Author : Stephen Mulhall
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996-11-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0631197435

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The Cavell Reader by Stephen Mulhall Pdf

This volume is essential collection of readers from the work of Stanley Cavell, one of the most influential American philosophers of the twentieth century. It provides those who are unfamiliar with Cavell's work with an overview of its strategic purpose, its central theme, and its argumentative development.

Stanley Cavell

Author : Richard Eldridge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-02-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521779723

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Must We Mean What We Say?

Author : Stanley Cavell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781316425367

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Must We Mean What We Say? by Stanley Cavell Pdf

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.

Stanley Cavell, Religion, and Continental Philosophy

Author : Espen Dahl
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253012067

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Stanley Cavell, Religion, and Continental Philosophy by Espen Dahl Pdf

“Impressive . . . a gifted theologian . . . manages to place Cavell in conversation with continental thought as productively as anyone before him.” —Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews The American philosopher Stanley Cavell (b. 1926) is a secular Jew who by his own admission is obsessed with Christ, yet his outlook on religion in general is ambiguous. Probing the secular and the sacred in Cavell’s thought, Espen Dahl explains that Cavell, while often parting ways with Christianity, cannot dismiss it either. Focusing on Cavell’s work as a whole, but especially on his recent engagement with Continental philosophy, Dahl brings out important themes in Cavell’s philosophy and his conversation with theology. “It is undoubtedly tricky business writing a book about Stanley Cavell and any book enterprising enough to bring him into conversation with Christian theology should be additionally commended, especially one as likable as Espen Dahl’s.” —Modern Theology “Clearly, concisely, and powerfully shows Cavell’s frequent and deep links to and engagements with religion and religious themes and with (so-called) Continental philosophy . . . Dahl has also written a highly accessible book on Cavell, and yet one which in no way ‘waters down’ or dilutes Cavell’s thinking. There ought to be more books of this kind on Cavell.” —International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion “In making such a convincing case for claiming that religion is Stanley Cavell’s pervasive, hence invisible, business, Espen Dahl also puts Cavell’s writings into sustained and productive dialogue with the work of Levinas and Girard in ways other commentators have not previously managed.” —Stephen Mulhall, Oxford University

Movies with Stanley Cavell in Mind

Author : David LaRocca
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501351938

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Movies with Stanley Cavell in Mind by David LaRocca Pdf

In Movies with Stanley Cavell in Mind, some of the scholars who have become essential for our understanding of Stanley Cavell's writing on film gather to use his landmark contributions to help us read new films-from Hollywood and elsewhere-that exist beyond his immediate reach and reading. In extending the scope of Cavell's film philosophy, we naturally find ourselves contending with it and amending it, as the case may be. Through a series of interpretive vignettes, the group effort situates, for the expert and novitiate alike, how Cavell's writing on film can profitably enrich one's experience of cinema generally and also inform how we might continue the practice of serious philosophical criticism of specific films mindful of his sensibility. The resulting conversations between texts, traditions, disciplines, genres, and generations creates propitious conditions for discovering what it means to watch and listen to movies with Stanley Cavell in mind.