Reading Cavell

by ALICE CRARY; PHILOSOPHY GRADUA

• ISBN13: 9780415346405
• ISBN10: 0415346401
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-16
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Alongside Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam and Jacques Derrida, Stanley Cavell is arguably one of the best-known philosophers in the world. In this state-of-the-art collection, Alice Crary 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.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	vii
Acknowledgments	x
Introduction	1	(7)
Alice Crary
Sanford Shieh
The Wittgensteinian event	8	(18)
Stanley Cavell
Suffering a sea change: crisis, catastrophe, and convention in the theory of speech-acts	26	(16)
Stephen Mulhall
Austin and the ethics of discourse	42	(26)
Alice Crary
How to do things with pornography	68	(30)
Nancy Bauer
The difficulty of reality and the difficulty of philosophy	98	(21)
Cora Diamond
Philosophy as the education of grownups: Stanley Cavell and skepticism	119	(12)
Hilary Putnam
The truth of skepticism	131	(35)
Sanford Shieh
The discovery of the other: Cavell, Fichte, and skepticism	166	(38)
Paul Franks
On examples, representatives, measures, standards, and the ideal	204	(14)
Eli Friedlander
Habitual remarriage: the ends of happiness in The Palm Beach Story	218	(12)
Stuart Klawans
The recovery of Greece and the discovery of America	230	(29)
James Conant
Index	259