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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Stanley Cavell, Cavell Stanley
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.09.2015
• EAN: 9781107113633
• ISBN: 978-1-107-11363-3
• Pagine: 368
• Serie: Cambridge Philosophy Classics; Cambridge Philosophy Classics
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Filosofia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -