Stanley Cavell

Must We Mean What We Say?

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Stanley Cavell's famous collection of essays includes discussions of issues in a diverse range of topics in philosophy, literature, the arts, politics and ethics, including his interpretation of 'ordinary language philosophy'. Presented in a fresh twenty-first-century series livery, this influential work is now available to a new generation of readers.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Philosophy Classics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781107534230
• ISBN-10: 1107534232
• Artikelnr.: 43114595

Autorenporträt

Stanley Cavell is the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the Theory of Value, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He has published widely on a range of subjects from the analytic philosophical tradition to Shakespeare.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to this edition Stephen Mulhall
Preface to updated edition of Must We Mean What We Say?
Foreword. An audience for philosophy
1. Must we mean what we say?
2. The availability of Wittgenstein's later philosophy
3. Aesthetic problems of modern philosophy
4. Austin at criticism
5. Ending the waiting game: a reading of Beckett's Endgame
6. Kierkegaard's On Authority and Revelation
7. Music discomposed
8. A matter of meaning it
9. Knowing and acknowledging
10. The avoidance of love: a reading of King Lear
Thematic index
Index of names.