Contesting Tears

Contesting Tears
Author: Stanley Cavell
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 1996
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780226098142

A Note on the Captions Preface Introduction 1: Naughty Orators: Negation of Voices in Gaslight 2: Psychoanalysis and Cinema: Moments of Letter from an Unknown Woman3: Ugly Duckling, Funny Butterfly: Bette Davis and Now, Voyager 4: Postscript: To Whom It May Concern 5: Stella's Taste: Reading Stella Dallas Notes Bibliography Filmography Index Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Stanley Cavell on Aesthetic Understanding

Stanley Cavell on Aesthetic Understanding
Author: Garry L. Hagberg
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2018-10-31
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3319974661

This book investigates the scope and significance of Stanley Cavell’s lifelong and lasting contribution to aesthetic understanding. Focusing on various strands of the rich body of Cavell’s philosophical work, the authors explore connections between his wide-ranging writings on literature, music, film, opera, autobiography, Wittgenstein, and Austin to contemporary currents in aesthetic thinking. Most centrally, the writings brought together here from an international team of senior, mid-career, and emerging scholars, explore the illuminating power of Cavell’s work for our deeper and richer comprehension of the intricate relations between aesthetic and ethical understanding. The chapters show what aesthetic understanding consists of, how such understanding might be articulated in the tradition of Cavell following Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin, and why this mode of human understanding is particularly important. At a time of quickening interest in Cavell and the tradition of which he is a central part and present-day leading exponent, this book offers insight into the deepest contributions of a major American philosopher and the profound role that aesthetic experience can play in the humane understanding of persons, society, and culture.

Taste and the Household

Taste and the Household
Author: Janet McCracken
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2001-09-27
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780791451052

Shows how lousy food, cheesy clothes, and dingy homes can ruin our lives.

Stanley Cavell's American Dream

Stanley Cavell's American Dream
Author: Lawrence F. Rhu
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2006
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780823225965

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.

Philosophy’s Artful Conversation

Philosophy’s Artful Conversation
Author: D. N. Rodowick
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2015-01-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0674416678

Theory has been an embattled discourse in the academy for decades. But now it faces a serious challenge from those who want to model the analytical methods of all scholarly disciplines on the natural sciences. What is urgently needed, says D. N. Rodowick, is a revitalized concept of theory that can assess the limits of scientific explanation and defend the unique character of humanistic understanding. Philosophy’s Artful Conversation is a timely and searching examination of theory’s role in the arts and humanities today. Expanding the insights of his earlier book, Elegy for Theory, and drawing on the diverse thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. H. von Wright, P. M. S. Hacker, Richard Rorty, and Charles Taylor, Rodowick provides a blueprint of what he calls a “philosophy of the humanities.” In a surprising and illuminating turn, he views the historical emergence of theory through the lens of film theory, arguing that aesthetics, literary studies, and cinema studies cannot be separated where questions of theory are concerned. These discourses comprise a conceptual whole, providing an overarching model of critique that resembles, in embryonic form, what a new philosophy of the humanities might look like. Rodowick offers original readings of Gilles Deleuze and Stanley Cavell, bringing forward unexamined points of contact between two thinkers who associate philosophical expression with film and the arts. A major contribution to cross-disciplinary intellectual history, Philosophy’s Artful Conversation reveals the many threads connecting the arts and humanities with the history of philosophy.

Stanley Cavell

Stanley Cavell
Author: Richard Eldridge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2003-02-24
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521779722

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Cavell on Film

Cavell on Film
Author: William Rothman
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2005-04-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0791483401

This extensive collection offers a substantially complete retrospective of Stanley Cavell's previously uncollected writings on film. Cavell is the only major philosopher in the Anglo-American tradition who has made film a central concern of his work, and his work offers inspiration and new directions to the field of film studies. The essays and other writings in this volume, presented in the order of their composition, range from major theoretical statements and extended critical studies of individual films or filmmakers to occasional pieces, all of which illuminate Cavell's practice of philosophy as it has developed in the more than three decades since the publication of The World Viewed. All periods of Cavell's career are represented, from the 1970s to the present, and the book includes many previously unpublished essays written since the early 1990s. In his introduction, William Rothman provides a useful and eloquent overview of Cavell's work on film and his aims as a philosopher more generally.

Life and Words

Life and Words
Author: Veena Das
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0520247442

Weaving anthropological and philosophical reflections on the ordinary into her analysis, Das points toward a new way of interpreting violence in societies and cultures around the globe.

Contending with Stanley Cavell

Contending with Stanley Cavell
Author: Russell B. Goodman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2005-02-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 019534653X

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.

Kierkegaard's Influence on Philosophy

Kierkegaard's Influence on Philosophy
Author: Jon Bartley Stewart
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2012
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781409440550

Tome III traces Kierkegaard's influence on Anglophone philosophy. It has long been thought that Kierkegaard played no role in this tradition, which for years was dominated by analytic philosophy. In this environment it was common to dismiss Kierkegaard along with the then current European philosophers who were influenced by him. However, a closer look reveals that in fact there were several thinkers in the US, Canada and Great Britain who were inspired by Kierkegaard even during the heyday of analytic philosophy. Current thinking now suggests that Kierkegaard has made some serious inroads into mainstream Anglophone philosophy, with many authors seeking inspiration in his works for current discussions concerning ethics, personal identity, philosophy of religion, and philosophical anthropology.