Stanley Cavell
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Stanley Louis Cavell (September 1, 1926 – June 19, 2018) 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.
In The World Viewed (1971) Cavell looks at photography and film. He also covers modernism in art and the nature of media, where he mentions the influence of art critic Michael Fried's writing on his work.
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Bibliography
- Must We Mean What We Say? (1969)
- The Senses of Walden (1972) Expanded edition San Francisco: North Point Press, 1981.
- The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film (1971); 2nd enlarged edn. (1979)
- The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy (1979) New York: Oxford University Press.
- Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage (1981) Template:ISBN
- Themes Out of School: Effects and Causes (1984)
- Disowning Knowledge: In Six Plays of Shakespeare (1987); 2nd edn.: Disowning Knowledge: In Seven Plays of Shakespeare (2003)
- In Quest of the Ordinary: Lines of Scepticism and Romanticism (1988) Chicago: Chicago University Press.
- This New Yet Unapproachable America: Lectures after Emerson after Wittgenstein (1988)
- Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome: The Constitution of Emersonian Perfectionism (1990)
- A Pitch of Philosophy: Autobiographical Exercises (1994)
- Philosophical Passages: Wittgenstein, Emerson, Austin, Derrida (1995)
- Contesting Tears: The Melodrama of the Unknown Woman (1996)
- Emerson's Transcendental Etudes (2003)
- Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life (2004)
- Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow (2005)
- Little Did I Know: Excerpts from Memory (2010)
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