Must We Mean What We Say? - A Book of Essays

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext This famous collection of essays by Stanley Cavell explores a diverse range of issues from philosophy to music and drama. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Stanley Cavell
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2015
• EAN: 9781107534230
• ISBN: 978-1-107-53423-0
• No. of pages: 372
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Cambridge Philosophy Classics; Cambridge Philosophy Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works