Cavell is read avidly by students of film, television, painting, and music, but especially by students of literature, for whom he offers major readings of Thore
Arguably no other living philosopher has done as much as Stanley Cavell to show the common cause shared by literature and philosophy. Stanley Cavell and Literar
Stanley Cavell and Literary Studies is a groundbreaking work that makes clear the relevance of Cavell's ideas for literary criticism. Arguably no other living p
This radically original book argues for the power of ordinary language philosophy—a tradition inaugurated by Ludwig Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin, and extende
This book offers a thorough examination of the relationship that Stanley Cavell's celebrated philosophical work has to the ways in which the United States has b