Inheriting Stanley Cavell

Memories, Dreams, Reflections

David LaRocca, David LaRocca

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781501358197
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Modern Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Some of the people who knew Stanley Cavell best--or know his work most intimately--are gathered in Inheriting Stanley Cavell to lend critical insight into the once and future legacy of this American titan of thought. Former students, colleagues, long-time friends, as well as distant admirers, explore moments when their personal experiences of Cavell's singular philosophical and literary illuminations have, as he put it, "risen to the level of philosophical significance." Many of the memories, dreams, and reflections on offer in this volume carry with them a welcome register of the autobiographical, expressing--much as Cavell did through his own writing--how the personal can become philosophical and thus provide a robust mode for the making of meaning and the clarifying of the human condition. Here, in varied styles and through a range of dynamic content, authors engage the lingering question of inheriting philosophy in whatever form it might take, and what it means to think about inheritance and enact it.

INDEX

abandonment here, here, here

transformation and here

academia

fecundity of personal experience for here

graduate school education here

importance, problem of here, here

intellectual industrial complex here

university curriculum here, here, here

academics

aestheticians here

American here, here, here

defending their interests here

as managerial class ch. 9 (here)

accounting here, here, here, here. See also Henry David Thoreau: economy

Adams, John here

Adam’s Rib (1949) here, here

Adorno, Theodor W. here, here

aestheticism here

Albritton, Rogers here

Alfred, William here, here

Alighieri, Dante here

America

as home here

idea of here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

offered to philosophy here

place of migration here

American cinema

American philosophy and here, here, here, here

American culture, here, here, here, here

that there is such a thing as here

American Dream here

American Philosophical Society here

Améry, Jean here

Andenken here

anecdote

acknowledgment of what it can offer here

autobiography and here, here

eccentricity and here, here

enduring lesson from here

public significance of here, here

as testament here

Anglo-American analytic tradition here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

Cavell as reinventor of here

anoriginality (Andrew Benjamin) here

Antonioni, Michelangelo here

anxiety

of influence here, here

of inheritance here, here

appreciation, concept of here, here

Arendt, Hannah here, here, here

Aristotle here, here, here

The Lyceum here

Arnheim, ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Praise Page
• Dedication Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• Introduction: Must We Say What We Learned? Parsing the Personal and the Philosophical
• I Standard Considerations
• II Feats of Ordinary Language
• III Cinema, Music, Art, and Aesthetics
• IV The Significance of Everyday Life
• Acknowledgments
• Contributors
• Index
• Copyright Page