Stanley Cavell
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American philosopher
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Philosophy
#72
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#213
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#31
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Aesthetics
#5
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#9
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#5
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Logic
#306
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#606
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#125
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Stanley Cavell's Degrees
- Bachelors Music University of California, Berkeley
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Why Is Stanley Cavell Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Stanley Louis Cavell was an American philosopher. He was the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University. He worked in the fields of ethics, aesthetics, and ordinary language philosophy. As an interpreter, he produced influential works on Wittgenstein, Austin, Emerson, Thoreau, and Heidegger. His work is characterized by its conversational tone and frequent literary references.
Stanley Cavell's Published Works
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Published Papers
- The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film (1972) (443)
- Conditions handsome and unhandsome : the constitution of Emersonian perfectionism (1992) (384)
- Must we mean what we say (1976) (363)
- Must we mean what we say? 1 (1958) (354)
- The claim of reason (1979) (338)
- The claim of reason : Wittgenstein, skepticism, morality, and tragedy (1981) (304)
- Art in Theory 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas (1993) (280)
- Disowning knowledge in seven plays of Shakespeare (1987) (276)
- The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy. (1981) (267)
- In Quest of the Ordinary: Lines of Skepticism and Romanticism (1989) (259)
- Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life (2004) (206)
- Philosophical Naturalism (2007) (203)
- Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage (1981) (196)
- Must We Mean What We Say? A Book of Essays.The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film.The Senses of Walden (1975) (182)
- The availability of Wittgenstein’s later philosophy (1962) (176)
- The senses of Walden (1972) (166)
- This New Yet Unapproachable America: Lectures After Emerson after Wittgenstein (1989) (157)
- The Scandal of the Speaking Body: Don Juan with J. L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages (2002) (152)
- A Pitch of Philosophy: Autobiographical Exercises (1994) (149)
- Contesting Tears: The Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman (1996) (125)
- Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow (2005) (120)
- Emerson's Transcendental Etudes (2003) (117)
- The Senses of Walden: An Expanded Edition (1992) (87)
- Philosophy and Animal Life (2008) (85)
- Themes out of School: Effects and Causes (1984) (84)
- The World Viewed (2021) (58)
- Must We Mean What We Say?: Knowing and Acknowledging (2002) (54)
- Little Did I Know: Excerpts from Memory (2010) (53)
- Philosophical Passages: Wittgenstein, Emerson, Austin, Derrida (1995) (48)
- Declining decline: Wittgenstein as a philosopher of culture (1988) (44)
- Must We Mean What We Say?: The avoidance of love: A reading of King Lear (2015) (40)
- Must We Mean What We Say?: Aesthetic Problems of Modern Philosophy (2002) (39)
- Cavell on film (2005) (37)
- Little Did I Know (2020) (36)
- The Cavell reader (1996) (33)
- Notes and Afterthoughts On the Opening of Wittgenstein's Investigations (1996) (32)
- The Gleam of Light (2005) (31)
- What Becomes of Things on Film? (2011) (28)
- Disowning Knowledge in Six Plays of Shakespeare. (1990) (26)
- Must We Mean What We Say?: Frontmatter (2002) (25)
- Must We Mean What We Say?: Preface to Updated Edition of Must We Mean What We Say? (2002) (25)
- The claim to community : essays on Stanley Cavell and political philosophy (2006) (24)
- Isolation and characterization of the 'photosynthetic' phosphoglycerate kinase from Beta vulgaris. (1976) (24)
- What’s the Use of Calling Emerson a Pragmatist? (1998) (22)
- The Claim of Reason. Wittgenstein, Scepticism, Morality and Tragedy. (1981) (21)
- Aversive Thinking: Emersonian Representations in Heidegger and Nietzsche (1991) (21)
- Must We Mean What We Say?: The Avoidance of Love (2002) (21)
- The Touch of Words (2010) (20)
- Stanley Cavell in Conversation with Paul Standish (2012) (19)
- Contending with Stanley Cavell (2005) (19)
- Pursuits of Reason Essays in Honor of Stanley Cavell (1993) (18)
- "Who Does the Wolf love?" Reading Coriolanus (1983) (18)
- Must We Mean What We Say?: The Availability of Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy (2002) (17)
- Cities of Words (2005) (17)
- Video Culture : A critical Investigation (1986) (17)
- Promoting argumentation in primary science contexts: an analysis of students' interactions in formal and informal learning environments (2012) (16)
- EXCURSUS ON WITTGENSTEIN’S VISION OF LANGUAGE (2002) (16)
- The stability of the borazole-to-metal bond in R3B3N3R′3Cr(CO)3. Kinetic and thermochemical studies (1977) (15)
- North by Northwest (1981) (15)
- Must We Mean What We Say?: Music discomposed (2002) (14)
- Freud and Philosophy: A Fragment (1987) (14)
- A matter of meaning it (2015) (14)
- Something out of the Ordinary (1997) (13)
- Must We Mean What We Say?: Ending the waiting game: A reading of Beckett's Endgame (2015) (12)
- Philosophy as the Education of Grownups (2012) (12)
- Ordinary language criticism : literary thinking after Cavell after Wittgenstein (2003) (11)
- Enthalpies of formation of homoleptic dimethylamido compounds of tantlum (V), molybdenum (III), molybdenum (IV), tungsten (III) and tungsten (VI). Enthalpy contributions of metal–metal triple bonds (1979) (11)
- Benjamin and Wittgenstein: Signals and Affinities (1999) (11)
- On Makavejev on Bergman (1979) (8)
- The Division of Talent (1985) (8)
- Must We Mean What We Say?: Austin at Criticism (1965) (8)
- Must We Mean What We Say?: Must We Mean What We Say? (2002) (8)
- Thinking of Emerson (1979) (8)
- The Investigations’ everyday aesthetics of itself S TA NLEY C AV ELL (2004) (7)
- Ugly Duckling, Funny Butterfly: Bette Davis and "Now, Voyager" (1990) (7)
- Time and place for philosophy (2021) (7)
- The Future of Possibility (2006) (6)
- Politics as Opposed to What? (1982) (6)
- Disowning Knowledge: Othello and the Stake of the Other (2003) (6)
- Must We Mean What We Say?: Ending the Waiting Game (2002) (6)
- What is the Emersonian Event? A comment on Kateb's emerson (1994) (5)
- Night and Day: Heidegger and Thoreau (2002) (5)
- Enthalpy of polymerisation of 2‐oxabicyclo[2.2.2]octan‐3‐one (1980) (5)
- Logical empiricism and pragmatism in ethics (1951) (5)
- Reasonable claims: Cavell and the tradition (1980) (5)
- Stanley Cavell's American Dream (2006) (5)
- Philosophy as Education (2012) (4)
- The Autobiographical Turn@@@French Lessons.@@@Colored People: A Memoir.@@@A Pitch of Philosophy: Autobiographical Exercises.@@@After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist.@@@The Intimate Critique: Autobiographical Literary Criticism.@@@Risking Who One Is.@@@The Edge of Night.@@@C (1995) (4)
- Philosophy and/as Film and/as If Philosophy@@@Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage (1982) (3)
- Old and New in Emerson and Nietzsche (2003) (3)
- 13 The Incessance and the Absence of the Political (2006) (3)
- Disowning Knowledge: Hamlet's Burden of Proof (2003) (3)
- What's the Use of Calling Emerson a Pragmatist? (1998) (2)
- Gareth B. Matthews, The Child's Philosopher (2021) (2)
- Reflections on a Life of Philosophy (1999) (2)
- Reading Harry Berger (1999) (2)
- Excerpts from Memory (2006) (2)
- Kierkegaard's On Authority and Revelation (2002) (2)
- Pursuits of Happiness: A Reading of The Lady Eve (1979) (2)
- REPLY TO FOUR CHAPTERS (2003) (2)
- Beginning To Read Barbara Cassin (2000) (2)
- Disowning Knowledge: The Avoidance of Love (2003) (2)
- Transition-state analogues as inhibitors for GABA-aminotransferase (1991) (2)
- Postscript (1989): To Whom It May Concern (1990) (2)
- On wittgenstein: Parts 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13 (2001) (2)
- Presidential addresses of the american philosophical association (1997) (2)
- Art and science (1986) (1)
- Disowning Knowledge: Macbeth Appalled (2003) (1)
- Must We Mean What We Say?: Permissions (2002) (1)
- KINETIC STUDIES ON REACTIONS OF METAL COMPLEXES. PART XVII. THE STABILITY OF THE BORAZOLE-TO-METAL BOND IN R3B3N3R′3CR(CO)3. KINETIC AND THERMOCHEMICAL STUDIES (1978) (1)
- Reading Cavell Reading Wittgenstein@@@The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy (1981) (1)
- Disowning Knowledge: Coriolanus and Interpretations of Politics (2003) (1)
- Music and culture. Impressions of revolution (2001) (1)
- Must We Mean What We Say?: Kierkegaard's (2002) (1)
- The Language of Movies and Antonioni's Double Vision@@@"The Thought of Movies."@@@The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Films@@@"Language, Vision, and Phenomenology: Merleau-Ponty as a Test Case." (1985) (1)
- VIII.—MORAL THEORY, ETHICAL JUDGMENTS AND EMPIRICISM (1952) (1)
- Impressions of Revolution (2001) (1)
- Disowning Knowledge: Recounting Gains, Showing Losses (2003) (1)
- Disowning Knowledge: Introduction (2003) (0)
- Call for Papers (1998) (0)
- The Poverty of Moral Theory in Literary Discourse: A Plea for Recognizing the Multipicity of Value Frameworks (5,478) (2012) (0)
- Cavell on Expression (1980) (0)
- MLA volume 106 issue 1 Cover and Back matter (1991) (0)
- Bury, RG, 37n7, 40n14, 42n19, 56n12, 147n7 (2011) (0)
- Film in the university or leopards in Connecticut (1977) (0)
- Learning and teaching science:linking cognitive developmentandcurriculum design (2000) (0)
- Who Disappoints Whom? (1989) (0)
- MLA volume 104 issue 4 Cover and Back matter (1989) (0)
- "Something Out of the Ordinary" Presidential Address [to the] Eastern Division, Ninety-Third Annual Meeting (1997) (0)
- American Philosophy Continued: Peirce's Puzzles about the Self (1993) (0)
- Wales Science Year - a retrospective (2004) (0)
- Extract from The World Viewed (2015) (0)
- In Quest of the Ordinary, Texts of Recovery (2019) (0)
- Saying in The Merchant of Venice (2013) (0)
- Reply to Grant (2005) (0)
- The political theory of Stanley Cavell (2012) (0)
- Message de monsieur Stanley Cavell (2011) (0)
- Must We Mean What We Say?: Foreword: An Audience for Philosophy (2002) (0)
- A Reply to John Hollander (1980) (0)
- L'accessibilité de la seconde philosophie de Wittgenstein (2004) (0)
- ON PHILOSOPHY , LOSS , AND PERFECTIONISM (2010) (0)
- Books Received (1993) (0)
- The Ground of Mutuality: Criteria, Judgment,(tnd Intelligibility in (1998) (0)
- Here and There (2022) (0)
- Why Do Movies Matter? A Debate Between Stanley Cavell and Arnaud Desplechin (2008) (0)
- Appropriating Heidegger: Night and day: Heidegger and Thoreau (2000) (0)
- Books Received (2000) (0)
- CSS volume 33 issue 3 Cover and Back matter (1991) (0)
- The Importance of Stanley Cavell (1985) (0)
- Preface to this edition (2002) (0)
- Preface to the updated edition (2019) (0)
- The Image of the Woman in Contemporary American Cinema (2002) (0)
- Errata to volume 25The stability of the borazole-to-metal bond in R3B3N3R′3Cr(CO)3. Kinetic and thermochemical studies (1978) (0)
- ENTHALPIES OF FORMATION OF HOMOLEPTIC DIMETHYLAMIDO COMPOUNDS OF TANTALUM(V), MOLYBDENUM(III), MOLYBDENUM(IV), TUNGSTEN(III) AND TUNGSTEN(VI). ENTHALPY CONTRIBUTIONS OF METAL-METAL TRIPLE BONDS (1979) (0)
- Silences Noises Voices (2001) (0)
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