Cavell's Must We Mean What We Say? at 50

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Greg Chase (College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts) Juliet Floyd (Boston University)

Cavell's Must We Mean What We Say? at 50

Greg Chase (College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts), Juliet Floyd (Boston University), Sandra Laugier

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Cambridge University Press
04 April 2024

Philosophy of mind

Series: Cambridge Philosophical Anniversaries

In 1969 Stanley Cavell's Must We Mean What We Say? revolutionized philosophy of ordinary language, aesthetics, ethics, tragedy, literature, music, art criticism, and modernism. This volume of new essays offers a multi-faceted exploration of Cavell's first and most important book, fifty years after its publication. The key subjects which animate Cavell's book are explored in detail: ordinary language, aesthetics, modernism, skepticism, forms of life, philosophy and literature, tragedy and the self, the questions of voice and audience, jazz and sound, Wittgenstein, Austin, Beckett, Kierkegaard, Shakespeare. The essays make Cavell's complex style and sometimes difficult thought accessible to a new generation of students and scholars. They offer a way into Cavell's unique philosophical voice, conveying its seminal importance as an intellectual intervention in American thought and culture, and showing how its philosophical radicality remains of lasting significance for contemporary philosophy, American philosophy, literary studies, and cultural studies.

Edited by: Greg Chase (College of the Holy Cross Massachusetts), Juliet Floyd (Boston University), Sandra Laugier
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 381g
ISBN: 9781009096546
ISBN 10: 1009096540
Series: Cambridge Philosophical Anniversaries
Pages: 259
Publication Date: 04 April 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Part I. Ordinary Language and its Philosophy: 1. Must we mean what we say? and ordinary language philosophy Sandra Laugier; 2. Revolutionary uses of Wittgenstein in must we mean what we say? Juliet Floyd; 3. Actions and their elaboration Jean-Philippe Narboux; 4., Faces of the ordinary Eli Friedlander; Part II. Aesthetics and the Modern: 5. Language-games and 'forms of life': Cavell's reading of Wittgenstein and its relevance to literary studies Greg Chase; 6. Philosophic and aesthetic appeal: Stanley Cavell on the irreducibility of the first person in aesthetics and in philosophy Arata Hamawaki; 7. Reading into it or hearing it out? Cavell on modernism and the art critic's hermeneutical risk Robert Engelman; 8. Must we sing what we mean?: 'Music discomposed' and philosophy composed Vincent Colapietro; Part III. Tragedy and the Self: 9. Philosophy as autobiography: From must we mean what we say? to little did I know Naoko Saito; 10. The finer weapon: Cavell, philosophy and praise Victor J. Krebs; 11. On Cavell's on Kierkegaard's on authority and revelation-with constant reference to Austen Kelly Jolley; 12.Tragic Implication Sarah Beckwith; 13. Gored states and theatrical guises Paul Standis.

Greg Chase is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross. He is the author of Wittgenstein and Modernist Fiction: The Language of Acknowledgment (2022), and has published articles in Modernism/modernity, African American Review and other journals. Juliet Floyd is Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. She is the author of Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics (2021) and co-editor of Philosophical Explorations of the Legacy of Alan Turing (with A. Bokulich, 2017) and Philosophy of Emerging Media (with J. Katz, 2016). Sandra Laugier is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. The translator of Cavell's work into French, she is also the author of Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy (2013) and co-editor of Cavell's posthumous volume Here and There (2022).