Stanley Cavell
Biographic Data
| ID | 96292 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stanley Cavell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stanley |
| FAMILY NAME | Cavell |
| SIGNATURE | CAVELL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 64 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 128 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 64 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1953 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Stanley Cavell in Caracas
We present here excerpts from seminars, interviews, and conversations with Stanley Cavell during the time of his visit to Caracas in 1998. This material comprises Cavell’s responses to questions raised at the seminar, extracts from an interview with Maria Elena Ramos and Victor Krebs, and a subsequent letter they received from Cavell in response to further questions. Krebs’ introduction to the collection sets the scene for Cavell’s visit and sket…
Stanley Cavell interviewed by Naoko Saito
In this interview with Naoko Saito, Stanley Cavell responds to questions about how he became interested in Wittgenstein and his sense of Wittgenstein’s fundamental importance for the question of what philosophy is or can be. Wittgenstein’s difference from Dewey and pragmatism is discussed in relation to the tone of philosophy, including possibilities of its not being characterized by polemical argument or geared towards problem-solving. This deve…
Walden in Tokyo
Stanley Cavell wrote this article on the occasion of the first publication of one of his books in Japanese. The Senses of Walden, translated by Naoko Saito, was published by Hosei University Press in 2005. The paper was subsequently presented at two colloquia held at Harvard University in the development of the present collection. The article recalls aspects of the writing of his book on Walden, interweaving these with reflections on the relation…
Here and There
Le langage sauvé par la musique
Dans L’Extravagant Monsieur Deeds (Mr. Deeds Goes To Town) de Frank Capra, lorsque Mr. Deeds (Gary Cooper) quitte sa modeste demeure dans une petite ville pour un hôtel particulier à New York qu’il a hérité de son oncle, il est assailli de propositions sur les façons de dépenser sa récente fortune. À la demande de l’Association de l’Opéra de poursuivre le soutien que leur apportait annuellement son oncle, il répond en demandant pourquoi ils ne ve…
Discours de réception du Doctorat honoris causa de l’École normale supérieure de Lyon, le 7 mai 2010
Je suis profondément honoré et touché de recevoir un Doctorat honoris causa de cette grande institution qu’est l’École normale supérieure de Lyon, et je suis très reconnaissant à l’École, à la communauté de ses enseignants et chercheurs, et à son directeur, Monsieur Olivier Faron, de m’avoir accordé ce diplôme, et d’avoir ainsi offert une telle reconnaissance à l’œuvre de toute ma vie. Il est particulièrement important pour moi d’être ainsi honor…
Must We Mean What We Say?
This New Yet Unapproachable America
Théories ordinaires
L’opposition épistémologique radicale de la théorie « savante » aux « savoirs ordinaires » doit-elle nous conduire à penser que les savoirs opératoires seraient dénués de toute capacité autodescriptive ou bien, au contraire, ignorer ce cadre d’analyse, en gommant les formes les plus rationalisées de la théorie scientifique, nous apporterait-il plus de clarté conceptuelle ? Pour sortir de ces impasses, l’ambition de cet ouvrage collectif est de pr…
Stanley Cavell in Conversation with Paul Standish
Journal Article Stanley Cavell in Conversation with Paul Standish Get access Stanley Cavell, Stanley Cavell Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Paul Standish Paul Standish Correspondence: Paul Standish, Centre for Philosophy, Institute of Education, University of London, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H0AL, UK. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jour…
Note
Responses
Excursus on Wittgenstein’s Vision of Language
Systematische Medienphilosophie
Naturalism in Question
Pourquoi les films comptent-ils
Dans cette conversation, le philosophe américain et le cinéaste français font part de leur passion pour les films et un style d'analyse qui ne cherche pas dans les films l'illustration d'une pensée. Au contraire, le cinéma nous apprend sur nous-mêmes quelque chose que ni la philosophie ni les autres arts ne peuvent nous faire comprendre : comment croire au monde
The Incessance and the Absence of the Political
The Future of Possibility
Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow
Excerpts from Memory
Contending with Stanley Cavell
"Stanley Cavell has been a brilliant, idiosyncratic, and controversial presence in American philosophy, literary criticism, and cultural studies for years. Even as he continues to produce new writing of a high standard - an example of which is included in this collection - his work has elicited responses from a new generation of writers in Europe and America. This collection showcases this new work, while illustrating the variety of Cavell's inte…
Passionate and Performative Utterance Morals of Encounter
In Aristotle’s Categories, meant to list the basic objects or components of thought, the little that is said about the concept of passion (or affection) is paired with the concept of action, and the only example offered, I believe (in chapter 4, referred back to in chapter 9), is the following: ‘“To lance,’ ‘to cauterize’ [are terms indicating] action; ‘to be lanced,’ ‘to be cauterized,’ affection.” Call this the metaphysical sense of passion. Th…
La philosophie du jour d'après Austen après Austin
partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque manire que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord pralable et crit de l'diteur, en dehors des cas prvus par la lgislation en vigueur en France. Il est prcis que son stockage dans une base de donnes est galement interdit
L'ordinaire et l'inquiétant
Stanley Cavell, Tun des plus importants philosophes etasuniens, est no en 1 926. Professeur a Harvard, il s'est fait connaitre notamment par son ouvrage, ?*SN?/as <te /a re/s^ cais en 1 996. Grand connaisseur des ouvres d' Emerson et d'Austin, de Nietzsche et de Wittgenstein, Stanley Cavell a considerablement varie ses objets d'etude, puisqu'il a ecrit sur les pieces de Shakespeare, mais aussi sur l'ontologie du cinema ou encore sur le cinema hol…
Les degrés de l'éternité
Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome: The Constitution of Emersonian Perfectionism
A Pitch of Philosophy
The Claim of Reason
The Availability of Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy
Stanley Cavell in Conversation with Paul Standish
Journal Article Stanley Cavell in Conversation with Paul Standish Get access Stanley Cavell, Stanley Cavell Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Paul Standish Paul Standish Correspondence: Paul Standish, Centre for Philosophy, Institute of Education, University of London, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H0AL, UK. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jour…
Freud and Philosophy
Politics as Opposed to What
Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow
Night and Day
L’auteur présente un parallèle entre Heidegger et Thoreau, mettant en évidence successivement, entre les deux philosophes, une aveuglante proximité (dans le rapport à l’ordinaire, la proximité/distance de l’être, l’idée d’installation et de construction, la succession de la nuit et du jour) et des différences tout aussi importantes dans leurs interprétations respectives d’une tâche désormais impartie à la philosophie, que Wittgenstein, également …
Benjamin and Wittgenstein
Ugly Duckling, Funny Butterfly
Thinking of Emerson
Study of Walden would perhaps not have become such an obsession with me had it not presented itself as a response to questions with which I was already obsessed: Why has America never expressed itself philosophically? Or has it-in the metaphysical riot of its greatest literature? Has the impulse to philosophical speculation been absorbed, or exhausted, by speculation in territory, as in such thoughts as Manifest Destiny? Or are such questions not…
Austin at Criticism
What Is the Emersonian Event? A Comment on Kateb's Emerson
(The following was my contribution to a panel at the American Political Science Association on August 20, 1993, celebrating the announcement of a new book by George Kateb on politics. The three brief citations I have taken from Kateb are from that portion of his manuscript that he chose to send me as a proposed text for my response, a text of seventy-three pages entitled Emerson's Philosophy of Self-reliant Activity. Since this was a typescript, …
Postscript (1989)
The Division of Talent
North by Northwest
On Makavejev on Bergman
Aesthetics and the Problem of Meaning
Must we mean what we say? 1
That what we ordinarily say and mean may have a direct and deep control over what we can philosophically say and mean is an idea which many philosophers find oppressive. It might be argued that in part the oppression results from misunderstanding; that the new philosophy which proceeds from ordinary language is not that different from traditional methods of philosophising, and that the frequent attacks upon it are misdirected. But I shall not att…
The Availability of Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy
Austin at Criticism
Show and Tell
Film in the university or leopards in Connecticut
(1977). Film in the university or leopards in Connecticut. Quarterly Review of Film Studies: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 141-158
The world viewed
Thinking of Emerson
Study of Walden would perhaps not have become such an obsession with me had it not presented itself as a response to questions with which I was already obsessed: Why has America never expressed itself philosophically? Or has it-in the metaphysical riot of its greatest literature? Has the impulse to philosophical speculation been absorbed, or exhausted, by speculation in territory, as in such thoughts as Manifest Destiny? Or are such questions not…
Pursuits of Happiness
T _HIS ACCOUNT of my experience of Preston Sturges's The Lady Eve is shaped around two claims. The first claim is that this film is one of six or seven main films constituting a genre of Hollywood talkies of thirties and forties. I shall call genre the comedy of remarriage. Its other main instances are It Happened One Night, His Girl Friday, The Awful Truth, The Philadelphia Story, and Adam's Rib; and I will also, for reasons given elsewhere,1 fe…
On Makavejev on Bergman
A Reply to John Hollander
Reading Cavell Reading Wittgenstein
The Claim of Reason
Pursuits of happiness
Looks at seven classic romantic comedies of the thirties and forties, and compares what each film expresses about marriage, interdependence, equality, and sexual roles
North by Northwest
Philosophy and/as Film and/as If Philosophy
Politics as Opposed to What
"Who Does the Wolf love?" Reading Coriolanus
Research Article| July 01 1983 "Who Does the Wolf love?" Reading Coriolanus Stanley Cavell Stanley Cavell Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1983) 3: 1–20. https://doi.org/10.2307/3043784 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Stanley C…
The Language of Movies and Antonioni's Double Vision
The Division of Talent
Freud and Philosophy
In Quest of the Ordinary
Who Disappoints Whom
Disowning Knowledge in Six Plays of Shakespeare
Postscript (1989)
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