Understanding Cavell, Understanding Modernism
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Understanding Cavell, Understanding Modernism

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Understanding Cavell, Understanding Modernism

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Stanley Cavell, undoubtedly one of the most singular and influential voices in contemporary philosophy, has written extensively on modernist art – particularly on painting, photography, music, and literature. He has also dedicated an impressive body of work to cinema, whose complex and nuanced status in regard to modernism constitutes one of Cavell's main concerns. However, Cavell's importance for understanding modernism is not exhausted by his interest in, and analyses of, modernist art and literature. Equally significant, and perhaps even more original, is his understanding of ordinary language philosophy as a modernist enterprise in its own terms.

Following the structure for the Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism series, this volume is divided into three distinct parts. The first part, "Conceptualizing Cavell," features introductory essays on Cavell's most important works. The second part, "Cavell and Aesthetics," delves into more specific aspects and problems pertaining to Cavell's aesthetics and its moral and political implications. The third part is an extended glossary of Cavell's key words and concepts.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Series Preface
  4. List of Abbreviations
  5. Introduction
  6. Part 1 Conceptualizing Cavell
  7. 1 Must We Mean What We Say? and the (Re)Birth of Ordinary Language Philosophy
  8. 2 Modernism in The World Viewed
  9. 3 The Senses of Walden: Thoreau’s Exemplary Act
  10. 4 The Claim of Reason: On Finding a Voice of One’s Own in Philosophy
  11. 5 Democracy as a Way of Life and An-archic Perfectionism: Rereading Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome
  12. Part 2 Cavell and Aesthetics
  13. 6 Philosophy, Literature, and the Romantic Response
  14. 7 Measuring the Value of Human Life According to a Perfectionist Philosopher
  15. 8 Modernism: Notes Toward a Philosophical Approach
  16. 9 Modernism and Film at Criticism: Rethinking the ā€œAesthetic Possibilitiesā€ of the Medium
  17. 10 Cavell and the Modernity of Film
  18. Part 3 Glossary
  19. 11 Claim
  20. 12 Criteria
  21. 13 Skepticism
  22. Notes on Contributors
  23. Index
  24. Copyright