Inheriting Stanley Cavell: Memories, Dreams, Reflections

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Cover Endorsement Series Title Copyright Dedication Contents Introduction: Must We Say What We Learned? I Standard Considerations 1 Must We Mean What We Say? On the Life and Thought of Stanley Cavell 2 Cavell at Film Criticism“An Unreadiness to Become Explicit” 3 Cavell as Educator 4 What Cavell Made Possible for Philosophy 5 Cavell Reading Cavell II Feats of Ordinary Language 6 Cavell’s Redemptive Reading 7 Staging Praise / Owning Words 8 Resisting the LiteralCavell’s Conversations with Thinking 9 Revisiting Ordinary Language Criticism 10 Monsters and FelicitiesVernacular Transformations of the Five-Foot Shelf III Cinema, Music, Art, and Aesthetics 11 The Idea that Films Could Have a Bearing on Philosophy 12 Words Fail Me. (Stanley Cavell’s Life Out of Music) 13 Cavell’s Ear for Things 14 How to Mean ItSome Simple Lessons 15 Stanley Cavell’s Doubling IV The Significance of Everyday Life 16 The Importance of Being Alive 17 Impression, Influence, Appreciation 18 Taking an Interest in Interest 19 Philosophy and Autobiography 20 Autophilosophy Acknowledgments Contributors' Index