University of California, Berkeley (BA) University of California, Los Angeles Harvard University (PhD)
School
Postanalytic philosophy[1]
Institutions
Harvard University
Doctoral students
Paul Guyer, Paul W. Franks, Arnold Davidson, Nancy Bauer, Barbara Herman, David Macarthur
Main interests
Skepticism, tragedy, aesthetics, ethics, ordinary language philosophy, American transcendentalism, film theory, William Shakespeare, opera, religion
Notable ideas
Linguistic film theory,[2] Moral perfectionism
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Stanley Louis Cavell (/kəˈvɛl/; September 1, 1926 – June 19, 2018) was an American philosopher. He was the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University. He worked in the fields of ethics, aesthetics, and ordinary language philosophy. As an interpreter, he produced influential works on Wittgenstein, Austin, Emerson, Thoreau, and Heidegger. His work is characterized by its conversational tone and frequent literary references.
^Michael Adrian Peters, Education, Philosophy and Politics: The Selected Works of Michael A. Peters, Routledge, 2012, p. 210.
^The Dualist Vols. 1–6, Department of Philosophy, Stanford University, 1994, p. 56.
^David LaRocca, Emerson's English Traits and the Natural History of Metaphor, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013, p. 318.
^Bernstein, Charles (2 February 2013). "Stanley Cavell on Close Listening". Jacket2.
^Kompridis, Nikolas (2006). "The Idea of a New Beginning". In Kompridis, Nikolas (ed.). Philosophical Romanticism. London: Routledge. pp. 32–59. ISBN 978-0-41525-643-8.
^"An Interview with Stanley Cavell". The Senses of Stanley Cavell. Bucknell. 1989. p. 59.
^Philosophy and Animal Life. Columbia University Press. 2008.
^Revolution of the Ordinary. University of Chicago Press.
^Felman, Shoshana (2003). The Scandal of the Speaking Body: Don Juan with J. L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804766890.
^Cantor, Jay (Summer 1981). "On Stanley Cavell". Raritan. 1 (1).
^"Stanley Cavell: Scepticisme et reconnaissance". La reconnaissance aujourd'hui. Sociologie. CNRS Éditions. July 2016. pp. 273–301. ISBN 9782271091550.
^Davidson, Arnold (2013). "Spiritual Exercises, Improvisation, and Moral Perfectionism". In Lewis, George E; Piekut, Benjamin (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies. Vol. 1. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195370935.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19537-093-5.
^Kindi, Vasso (2010). "Novelty and Revolution in Art and Science: The Connection between Kuhn and Cavell". Perspectives on Science. 18 (3): 284–310. doi:10.1162/POSC_a_00011. S2CID 57559025.
^Saito, Naoko; Standish, Paul, eds. (2012). Stanley Cavell and the Education of Grownups. Fordham University. ISBN 9780823234738. JSTOR j.ctt14bs007.
^Baskin, Jon (4 April 2010). "The Perspective of Terrence Malick". The Point.
^Sousa, Ronald de (1985-07-14). "Why We Can't be Good". The New York Times.
^Cavell, Stanley (2013-07-15). This New Yet Unapproachable America: Lectures after Emerson after Wittgenstein. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226037417.
^Paul W. Franks
^Lahav, Gil (1994). "An Interview with Ross McElwee". PBS.
^Vries, Hent de (2011). ""A Greatest Miracle": Stanley Cavell, Moral Perfectionism, and the Ascent into the Ordinary". Modern Theology. 27 (3): 462–477. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0025.2011.01688.x.
^Hearne, Vicki (2019-03-06). "The Claim of Speech". Poetry Foundation.
^Shell, Marc (2005). Polio and its Aftermath: The Paralysis of Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-67401-315-5.
^Bannes, Simon (25 August 2008). "Entre Stanley Cavell et Arnaud Desplechin". Nonfiction.
^Mendieta, Eduardo (Fall 2004). "Empire, Pragmatism, and War: A Conversation with Cornel West". Logos. 3 (4). Archived from the original on 18 October 2004.
^"Screening Room 1972-1981". May 2013.
^Sjöstedt, Johanna (8 March 2013). "What is feminist philosophy?". Eurozine.
^MacArthur, David (2016). "Living Our Skepticism of Others Through Film: Remarks in Light of Cavell". SubStance. 45 (3): 120–136. doi:10.1353/sub.2016.0032. ISSN 1527-2095.
Stanley Louis Cavell (/kəˈvɛl/; September 1, 1926 – June 19, 2018) was an American philosopher. He was the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and...
and interpretation of movies. Linguistic film theory was proposed by StanleyCavell and it is based on the philosophical tradition begun by late Ludwig...
who made use of the method of ordinary language philosophy include StanleyCavell, John Searle and Oswald Hanfling. Today, Alice Crary, Nancy Bauer, Sandra...
Richard Rorty, Donald Davidson, Hilary Putnam, W. V. O. Quine, and StanleyCavell. The term is closely associated with the much broader movement of contemporary...
University of California Press, 1985. Warren, Charles, "Cavell, Altman and Cassavetes" in the StanleyCavell special issue: Crouse, Jeffrey (ed.) Film International...
ISBN 0415-07310-3. Bates, Stanley (24 February 2003). "StanleyCavell and Ethics". In Eldridge, Richard (ed.). StanleyCavell. Cambridge University Press...
problem interesting and perceptive, and others, such as John McDowell, StanleyCavell, Gordon Baker, Peter Hacker, Colin McGinn, and Peter Winch who argue...
philosopher StanleyCavell in a series of academic articles that later became a 1981 book, Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage. Cavell argues...
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and Object, 1960 H. Paul Grice, "Logic and Conversation", 1967/1987 StanleyCavell, Must We Mean What We Say? A Book of Essays, 1969/1976 John Searle,...
fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy Hagberg, Garry L. (2018). StanleyCavell on Aesthetic Understanding. Springer. p. 125. Fitzpatrick, Vincent (2004)...
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University, earning her Ph.D. under the direction of John Rawls and StanleyCavell. During graduate school, she spent several years of study at the Free...
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English (1995) p. 342 Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf (1996) p. 618 StanleyCavell, Cavell on Film (2003) p. 153 R. Martin, The Light that Failed (1974) p...
50 film critics and academics conducted by film magazine FLM. When StanleyCavell saw Smiles of a Summer Night, he was so affected that he returned home...
Benjamin, Freedom, and the Human Subject, Oxford University Press, 2016 StanleyCavell and Literary Studies: Consequences of Skepticism, Richard Eldridge and...
has taken up these and other themes in articles on the philosophy of StanleyCavell, Hilary Putnam, Richard Rorty and Ludwig Wittgenstein. After completing...
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Theories of Cinema, 1945–1990, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999. StanleyCavell, The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film (1971); 2nd enlarged...
Krauss. Since the early 1960s, he has also been close to philosopher StanleyCavell. Fried was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1985...
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but as something that is implicated in the ordinary. The philosopher StanleyCavell has written a memorable foreword to the book in which he says that one...
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