Stanley Cavell

This is the first attempt to describe and assess the full range of Cavell's work.

Richard Eldridge (Edited by)

9780521770255, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 24 February 2003

262 pages
23.6 x 15.8 x 2.2 cm, 0.494 kg

"...this volume will be most helpful in encouraging the kind of attention to Cavell's work that it both merits and demands." Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Contemporary Philosophy in Focus offers a series of introductory volumes on many of the dominant philosophical thinkers of the current age. Stanley Cavell has been one of the most creative and independent of contemporary philosophical voices. At the core of his thought is the view that skepticism is not a theoretical position to be refuted by philosophical theory but is a reflection of the fundamental limits of human knowledge of the self, of others and of the external world that must be accepted. This volume is the first attempt systematically and accessibly to describe and assess the full range of Cavell's work. There are new accounts of Cavell's contribution to the philosophy of mind and language, the theory of action, ethics, aesthetics, Romanticism, American philosophy, Shakespeare, and film and opera. Outside philosophy the appeal of this volume will be unusually broad.

1. Introduction Richard Eldridge
2. Philosophy of mind and epistemology Stephen Mulhall
3. Theory of action Timothy Gould
4. Ethics Stanley Bates
5. Aesthetics, criticism and modernism J. M. Berstein
6. German philosophy and romanticism William Desmond
7. American philosophy, metaphilosophy and the idea of America James Conant
8. Shakespeare, feminism and psychoanalysis Karen Hanson
9. Movies, opera and voice William Rothman
10. Cavell on Shakespeare Anthony Cascardi.

Subject Areas: History of ideas [JFCX], Regional studies [GTB], Literary studies: general [DSB], Music [AV], Films, cinema [APF]