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Author Cavell, Stanley, 1926-2018.

Uniform Title Works. Selections. 1996
Title The Cavell reader / edited by Stephen Mulhall.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Blackwell Publishers, 1996.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  191 C315c 1996    ---  Available
Description vi, 420 pages ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Series Blackwell readers
Blackwell readers.
Bibliography "Stanley Cavell: a bibliography, 1951-1995"-Pages 390-414.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Prologue: The Avoidance of Love (The Abdication Scene) -- 1. The Normal and the Natural -- 2. Knowing and Acknowledging -- 3. "The Frog and the Craftsman" -- 4. The Avoidance of Love (External-World Skepticism) -- 5. Ending the Waiting Game -- 6. Music Discomposed -- 7. Kierkegaard's On Authority and Revelation -- 8. The Avoidance of Love (Theater) -- 9. "Photograph, Screen, and Star" -- 10. The Same and Different: The Awful Truth -- 11. Macbeth Appalled -- 12. Psychoanalysis and Cinema: The Melodrama of the Unknown Woman -- 13. The Ordinary as the Uneventful -- 14. Words and Sentences -- 15. Being Odd, Getting Even -- 16. Declining Decline -- 17. Moral Perfectionism -- Epilogue: The Investigations' Everyday Aesthetics of Itself -- Stanley Cavell: A Bibliography 1951-1995.
Summary This volume is a collection of readings from the work of Stanley Cavell, an influential 20th-century American philosopher. It provides those who are unfamiliar with Cavell's work with an overview of its strategic purpose, its central themes and its argumentative development.
Subject Cavell, Stanley, 1926-2018 -- Bibliography.
Philosophy, Modern.
Criticism.
Philosophy.
Cavell, Stanley, 1926-2018 (OCoLC)fst00028565
Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01060777
Criticism. (OCoLC)fst00883735
Philosophy, Modern. (OCoLC)fst01061071
Genre/Form Bibliographies. (OCoLC)fst01919895
Bibliographies.
Added Author Mulhall, Stephen, 1962- editor.
ISBN 0631197427 (alk. paper)
9780631197423 (alk. paper)
0631197435 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780631197430 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

 
    
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