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Sandra Laugier, Juliet Floyd, Jean-Philippe Narboux, Eli Friedlander, Greg Chase, Arata Hamawaki, Robert Engelman, Vincent Colapietro, Naoko Saito, Victor J. Krebs, Kelly Jolley, Sarah Beckwith, Paul Standish
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  • Date Published: March 2022
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  • isbn: 9781009103237

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  • In 1969 Stanley Cavell's Must We Mean What We Say? revolutionized philosophy of ordinary language, aesthetics, ethics, tragedy, literature, music, art criticism, and modernism. This volume of new essays offers a multi-faceted exploration of Cavell's first and most important book, fifty years after its publication. The key subjects which animate Cavell's book are explored in detail: ordinary language, aesthetics, modernism, skepticism, forms of life, philosophy and literature, tragedy and the self, the questions of voice and audience, jazz and sound, Wittgenstein, Austin, Beckett, Kierkegaard, Shakespeare. The essays make Cavell's complex style and sometimes difficult thought accessible to a new generation of students and scholars. They offer a way into Cavell's unique philosophical voice, conveying its seminal importance as an intellectual intervention in American thought and culture, and showing how its philosophical radicality remains of lasting significance for contemporary philosophy, American philosophy, literary studies, and cultural studies.

    • Makes Cavell's difficult style and thought accessible and clear for a wide range of readers
    • Places his work in its philosophical and historical context and shows its present relevance
    • Includes contributions from the major scholars of Cavell studies from a range of disciplines
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    • Date Published: March 2022
    • format: Adobe eBook Reader
    • isbn: 9781009103237
    • availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
  • Table of Contents

    Introduction: Part I. Ordinary Language and its Philosophy:
    1. Must we mean what we say? and ordinary language philosophy Sandra Laugier
    2. Revolutionary uses of Wittgenstein in must we mean what we say? Juliet Floyd
    3. Actions and their elaboration Jean-Philippe Narboux
    4., Faces of the ordinary Eli Friedlander
    Part II. Aesthetics and the Modern:
    5. Language-games and 'forms of life': Cavell's reading of Wittgenstein and its relevance to literary studies Greg Chase
    6. Philosophic and aesthetic appeal: Stanley Cavell on the irreducibility of the first person in aesthetics and in philosophy Arata Hamawaki
    7. Reading into it or hearing it out? Cavell on modernism and the art critic's hermeneutical risk Robert Engelman
    8. Must we sing what we mean?: 'Music discomposed' and philosophy composed Vincent Colapietro
    Part III. Tragedy and the Self:
    9. Philosophy as autobiography: From must we mean what we say? to little did I know Naoko Saito
    10. The finer weapon: Cavell, philosophy and praise Victor J. Krebs
    11. On Cavell's on Kierkegaard's on authority and revelation-with constant reference to Austen Kelly Jolley
    12.Tragic Implication Sarah Beckwith
    13. Gored states and theatrical guises Paul Standis.

  • Editors

    Greg Chase, College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts
    Greg Chase is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross. He is the author of Wittgenstein and Modernist Fiction: The Language of Acknowledgment (2022), and has published articles in Modernism/modernity, African American Review and other journals.

    Juliet Floyd, Boston University
    Juliet Floyd is Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. She is the author of Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics (2021) and co-editor of Philosophical Explorations of the Legacy of Alan Turing (with A. Bokulich, 2017) and Philosophy of Emerging Media (with J. Katz, 2016).

    Sandra Laugier, Université de Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne
    Sandra Laugier is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. The translator of Cavell's work into French, she is also the author of Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy (2013) and co-editor of Cavell's posthumous volume Here and There (2022).

    Contributors

    Sandra Laugier, Juliet Floyd, Jean-Philippe Narboux, Eli Friedlander, Greg Chase, Arata Hamawaki, Robert Engelman, Vincent Colapietro, Naoko Saito, Victor J. Krebs, Kelly Jolley, Sarah Beckwith, Paul Standish

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