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Stanley Cavell

Richard Eldridge editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:24th Feb '03

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This is the first attempt to describe and assess the full range of Cavell's work.

Contemporary Philosophy in Focus offers introductory volumes on many of the dominant philosophical thinkers of the current age. Stanley Cavell has been one of the most creative and independent of contemporary philosophical voices. This volume is the first attempt to describe and assess the full range of Cavell's work.Contemporary Philosophy in Focus offers a series of introductory volumes on many of the dominant philosophical thinkers of the current age. Stanley Cavell has been one of the most creative and independent of contemporary philosophical voices. At the core of his thought is the view that skepticism is not a theoretical position to be refuted by philosophical theory but is a reflection of the fundamental limits of human knowledge of the self, of others and of the external world that must be accepted. This volume is the first attempt systematically and accessibly to describe and assess the full range of Cavell's work. There are new accounts of Cavell's contribution to the philosophy of mind and language, the theory of action, ethics, aesthetics, Romanticism, American philosophy, Shakespeare, and film and opera. Outside philosophy the appeal of this volume will be unusually broad.

"...this volume will be most helpful in encouraging the kind of attention to Cavell's work that it both merits and demands." Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

ISBN: 9780521770255

Dimensions: 236mm x 158mm x 22mm

Weight: 494g

262 pages