Stanley Cavell

Stanley Cavell
Cavell in 2016
Born
Stanley Louis Goldstein

(1926-09-01)September 1, 1926
Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
DiedJune 19, 2018(2018-06-19) (aged 91)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
EducationUniversity of California, Berkeley (BA)
University of California, Los Angeles
Harvard University (PhD)
SchoolPostanalytic philosophy[1]
InstitutionsHarvard University
Doctoral students
Main interests
Skepticism, tragedy, aesthetics, ethics, ordinary language philosophy, American transcendentalism, film theory, William Shakespeare, opera, religion
Notable ideas
Linguistic film theory,[2] Moral perfectionism
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Stanley Louis Cavell (/kəˈvɛl/; 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.

  1. ^ Michael Adrian Peters, Education, Philosophy and Politics: The Selected Works of Michael A. Peters, Routledge, 2012, p. 210.
  2. ^ The Dualist Vols. 1–6, Department of Philosophy, Stanford University, 1994, p. 56.
  3. ^ Bernstein, Charles (2 February 2013). "Stanley Cavell on Close Listening". Jacket2.
  4. ^ Kompridis, Nikolas (2006). "The Idea of a New Beginning". In Kompridis, Nikolas (ed.). Philosophical Romanticism. London: Routledge. pp. 32–59. ISBN 978-0-41525-643-8.
  5. ^ "An Interview with Stanley Cavell". The Senses of Stanley Cavell. Bucknell. 1989. p. 59.
  6. ^ Philosophy and Animal Life. Columbia University Press. 2008.
  7. ^ Revolution of the Ordinary. University of Chicago Press.
  8. ^ Felman, Shoshana (2003). The Scandal of the Speaking Body: Don Juan with J. L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804766890.
  9. ^ Cantor, Jay (Summer 1981). "On Stanley Cavell". Raritan. 1 (1).
  10. ^ Crary, Alice; Sanford, Shieh, eds. (2006). Reading Cavell. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-13428-004-9.
  11. ^ "Stanley Cavell: Scepticisme et reconnaissance". La reconnaissance aujourd'hui. Sociologie. CNRS Éditions. July 2016. pp. 273–301. ISBN 9782271091550.
  12. ^ Davidson, Arnold (2013). "Spiritual Exercises, Improvisation, and Moral Perfectionism". In Lewis, George E; Piekut, Benjamin (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies. Vol. 1. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195370935.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19537-093-5.
  13. ^ Kindi, Vasso (2010). "Novelty and Revolution in Art and Science: The Connection between Kuhn and Cavell". Perspectives on Science. 18 (3): 284–310. doi:10.1162/POSC_a_00011. S2CID 57559025.
  14. ^ Saito, Naoko; Standish, Paul, eds. (2012). Stanley Cavell and the Education of Grownups. Fordham University. ISBN 9780823234738. JSTOR j.ctt14bs007.
  15. ^ Baskin, Jon (4 April 2010). "The Perspective of Terrence Malick". The Point.
  16. ^ Sousa, Ronald de (1985-07-14). "Why We Can't be Good". The New York Times.
  17. ^ Cavell, Stanley (2013-07-15). This New Yet Unapproachable America: Lectures after Emerson after Wittgenstein. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226037417.
  18. ^ Paul W. Franks
  19. ^ Lahav, Gil (1994). "An Interview with Ross McElwee". PBS.
  20. ^ Vries, Hent de (2011). ""A Greatest Miracle": Stanley Cavell, Moral Perfectionism, and the Ascent into the Ordinary". Modern Theology. 27 (3): 462–477. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0025.2011.01688.x.
  21. ^ Hearne, Vicki (2019-03-06). "The Claim of Speech". Poetry Foundation.
  22. ^ Shell, Marc (2005). Polio and its Aftermath: The Paralysis of Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-67401-315-5.
  23. ^ Bannes, Simon (25 August 2008). "Entre Stanley Cavell et Arnaud Desplechin". Nonfiction.
  24. ^ Mendieta, Eduardo (Fall 2004). "Empire, Pragmatism, and War: A Conversation with Cornel West". Logos. 3 (4). Archived from the original on 18 October 2004.
  25. ^ "Screening Room 1972-1981". May 2013.
  26. ^ Sjöstedt, Johanna (8 March 2013). "What is feminist philosophy?". Eurozine.
  27. ^ MacArthur, David (2016). "Living Our Skepticism of Others Through Film: Remarks in Light of Cavell". SubStance. 45 (3): 120–136. doi:10.1353/sub.2016.0032. ISSN 1527-2095.