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  • The Senses of Walden

    An Expanded Edition

    by Stanley Cavell ...
    Stanley Cavell, one of America's most distinguished philosophers, has written an invaluable companion volume to Walden, a seminal book in our cultural heritage. This expanded edition includes two essays on Emerson. ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Themes out of School

    Effects and Causes

    by Stanley Cavell ...
    " Themes out of School . . . cannot help but urge us to think, in fresh and undistracted ways, about the world that actually confronts us." —Jay Parini, Hudson ReviewIn the first essay of this book, Stanley Cavell characterizes philosophy as a "willingness to think not about something other than what ordinary human beings think about, but rather to learn to think undistractedly about things that ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cities of Words

    Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life

    by Stanley Cavell ...
    Since Socrates and his circle first tried to frame the Just City in words, discussion of a perfect communal life--a life of justice, reflection, and mutual respect--has had to come to terms with the distance between that idea and reality. Measuring this distance step by practical step is the philosophical project that Stanley Cavell has pursued on his exploratory path. Situated at the intersection ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Must We Mean What We Say?

    A Book of Essays

    by Stanley Cavell ...
    Reissued with an additional preface to sit alongside the volume on Stanley Cavell in Contemporary Philosophy in Focus this famous collection of essays covers a remarkably wide range of philosophical issues (there are essays on Wittgenstein, Austin, Kierkegaard, and the philosophy of language) and extends beyond philosophy into discussions of music and drama. ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • This New Yet Unapproachable America

    Lectures after Emerson after Wittgenstein

    by Stanley Cavell ...
    Stanley Cavell is a titan of the academic world; his work in aesthetics and philosophy has shaped both fields in the United States over the past forty years. In this brief yet enlightening collection of lectures, Cavell investigates the work of two of his most tried-and-true subjects: Emerson and Wittgenstein. Beginning with an introductory essay that places his own work in a philosophical and ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The World Viewed

    Reflections on the Ontology of Film, Enlarged Edition

    by Stanley Cavell ...
    Stanley Cavell looks closely at America's most popular art and our perceptions of it. His explorations of Hollywood's stars, directors, and most famous films—as well as his fresh look at Godard, Bergman, and other great European directors—will be of lasting interest to movie-viewers and intelligent people everywhere. ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Must We Mean What We Say?

    A Book of Essays

    by Stanley Cavell ...
    Series series Cambridge Philosophy Classics
    In this classic collection of wide-ranging and interdisciplinary essays, Stanley Cavell explores a remarkably broad range of philosophical issues from politics and ethics to the arts and philosophy. The essays explore issues as diverse as the opposing approaches of 'analytic' and 'Continental' philosophy, modernism, Wittgenstein, abstract expressionism and Schoenberg, Shakespeare on human needs, ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • The Claim of Reason

    Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy

    by Stanley Cavell ...
    This handsome new edition of Stanley Cavell's landmark text, first published 20 years ago, provides a new preface that discusses the reception and influence of his work, which occupies a unique niche between philosophy and literary studies. ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Here and There

    Sites of Philosophy

    by Stanley Cavell ...
    The first posthumous collection from the writings of Stanley Cavell, shedding new light on the distinctive vision and intellectual trajectory of an influential American philosopher.For Stanley Cavell, philosophy was a matter of responding to the voices of others. Throughout his career, he articulated the belief that words spring to life in concrete circumstances of speech: the significance and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Cavell on Film

    by Stanley Cavell ...
    Series series SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
    A collection of the philosopher Stanley Cavell's most important writings on cinema.Stanley Cavell was the first philosopher in the Anglo-American tradition to make film a central concern of his work, and this volume offer a substantially complete retrospective of his writings on cinema, which continues to offer inspiration and new directions to the field of film and media studies. The essays and ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • In Quest of the Ordinary

    Lines of Skepticism and Romanticism

    by Stanley Cavell ...
    These lectures by one of the most influential and original philosophers of the twentieth century constitute a sustained argument for the philosophical basis of romanticism, particularly in its American rendering. Through his examination of such authors as Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Wordsworth, and Coleridge, Stanley Cavell shows that romanticism and American transcendentalism represent a serious ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Disowning Knowledge

    In Seven Plays of Shakespeare

    by Stanley Cavell ...
    Reissued with a new essay on Macbeth this famous collection of essays on Shakespeare's tragedies considers these plays as responses to the crisis of knowledge and the emergence of modern skepticism provoked by the new science of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. ... Read more

    $24.59 USD