Research Catalog

Title

Cavell's Must we mean what we say? at 50 / edited by Greg Chase, College of the Holy Cross, Juliet Floyd, Boston University, Sandra Laugier, University of Paris, Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Publication

• Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

• Chase, Greg
• Floyd, Juliet, 1960-
• Laugier, Sandra

Description

ix, 249 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

• "The volumes in this series reflect on classic philosophy books from the second half of the twentieth century, assessing their achievements, their influence on the field, and their lasting significance"--
• "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 multifaceted 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."--Back cover.

Series Statement

Cambridge philosophical anniversaries

Uniform Title

Cambridge Philosophical Anniversaries.

Subject

• Cavell, Stanley, 1926-2018
• Philosophy, Modern

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (231-239) and indexes.

Contents

Part I: Ordinary language and its philosophy. Must We Mean What We Say? and ordinary language philosophy / Sandra Luagier -- Revolutionary uses of Wittgenstein in Must We Mean What We Say? / Juliet Floyd -- Actions and their elaboration / Jean-Philippe Narboux -- Faces of the ordinary / Eli Friedlander -- Part II: Aesthetics and the modern. "Language-games" and "forms of life" : Cavell's reading of Wittgenstein and its relevance to literary studies / Greg Chase -- Philosophic and aesthetic appeal : Stanley Cavell on the irreducibility of the first person in aesthetics and in philosophy / Arata Hamawaki -- Reading into it or hearing it out? : Cavell on modernism and the art critic's hermeneutical risk / Robert Engelman -- Must We Sing What We Mean? : "Music discomposed" and philosophy composed" / Vincent Colapietro -- Part III: Tragedy and the self. Philosophy and autobiography : from must we mean what we say? to little did I know / Naoko Saito -- the finer weapon : Cavell, philosophy, and praise / Victor J. Krebs -- On Cavell's "Kierkegaard's On Authority and Revelation" : with constant reference to Austen / Kelly Jolley -- Tragic implication / Sarah Beckwith -- Gored states and theatrical guises / Paul Standish.

Call Number

JFE 22-2395

ISBN

• 9781316515259
• 1316515257
• 9781009096546
• 1009096540

LCCN

2021039258

OCLC

1265345925

Title

Cavell's Must we mean what we say? at 50 / edited by Greg Chase, College of the Holy Cross, Juliet Floyd, Boston University, Sandra Laugier, University of Paris, Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Cambridge philosophical anniversaries

Cambridge Philosophical Anniversaries.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (231-239) and indexes.

Added Author

Chase, Greg, editor, contributor.

Floyd, Juliet, 1960- editor, contributor.

Laugier, Sandra, editor, contributor.

Other Form:

Online version: Cavell's Must we mean what we say? at 50. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2022 9781009099714 (DLC) 2021039259

Research Call Number

JFE 22-2395