Stanley Cavell
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Stanley Louis Cavell (
Life
Cavell was born as Stanley Louis Goldstein to a
He entered graduate school in philosophy at
In the summer of 1964, Cavell joined a group of graduate students, who taught at
In 1976, Cavell's first son, Benjamin, was born. In 1979, along with the documentary filmmaker
Cavell died in
Philosophy
Although trained in the Anglo-American
Cavell established his distinct philosophical identity with Must We Mean What We Say? (1969), a collection of essays that addresses topics such as language use, metaphor, skepticism, tragedy, and literary interpretation from the point of view of ordinary language philosophy, of which he is a practitioner and ardent defender. One of the essays discusses Søren Kierkegaard's work on revelation and authority, The Book on Adler, in an effort to help reintroduce the book to modern philosophical readers.[52] In The World Viewed (1971) Cavell looks at photography, film, modernism in art and the nature of media, mentioning the influence of art critic Michael Fried on his work.
Cavell is well-known for The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy (1979), which forms the centerpiece of his work and has its origins in his doctoral dissertation. In Pursuits of Happiness (1981), Cavell describes his experience of seven prominent Hollywood comedies:
In Cities of Words (2004) Cavell traces the history of
A scholarly journal, Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies, engages with his philosophical work. It is edited by Sérgio Dias Branco and Amir Khan and published by the University of Ottawa.
Honorary degrees
- Doctor of Humane Letters, Kalamazoo College, 1980
- Doctor of Letters, Iona College, 1985
- Doctor of Humane Letters, University of Chicago, 1987
- Docteur, Honoris Causa, Université de Strasbourg, 1996
- Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa, Hebrew University, 1997
- Doctor of Letters, Honoris Causa, University of East Anglia, 2009
- Docteur, Honoris Causa, Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon, 2010
- Doctor of Letters, Wesleyan University, 2010
- Doctor of Theology, Institut Protestant de Théologie de Paris, 2010
Selected honors
- Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University, 1953–56
- Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, 1962-1963
- Distinguished Teaching Award, University of California, Berkeley, 1961
- Fellow, Wesleyan University Center for the Humanities, 1970-1971
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1978-
- Fellow, Macarthur Foundation
- President, American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division), 1996–97
- 2000 Centennial Medalist, Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
- Romanell Phi Beta Kappa Professorship, 2004–05
- Member, American Philosophical Society, 2005-
Selected special lectureships
- Patricia Wise Lecture, American Film Institute, 1982
- Mrs. William Beckman Lectures, University of California, Berkeley, 1983
- Tanner Lecture, Stanford University, April 1986
- Carus Lectures, American Philosophical Association, 1988
- Plenary Address, Shakespeare World Congress, Los Angeles, 1996
- Presidential Address, American Philosophical Association, Atlanta, 1996
- Howison Lectures, University of California, Berkeley, February, 2002
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) ISBN 978-0-674-73906-2
- 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)
- Cavell on Film (2005)
- 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)
- Here and There: Sites of Philosophy (2022)
See also
References
- Michael Adrian Peters, Education, Philosophy and Politics: The Selected Works of Michael A. Peters, Routledge, 2012, p. 210.
- ^ The Dualist Vols. 1–6, Department of Philosophy, Stanford University, 1994, p. 56.
- ^ David LaRocca, Emerson's English Traits and the Natural History of Metaphor, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013, p. 318.
- ^ Bernstein, Charles (2 February 2013). "Stanley Cavell on Close Listening". Jacket2.
- ISBN 978-0-41525-643-8.
- ^ "An Interview with Stanley Cavell". The Senses of Stanley Cavell. Bucknell. 1989. p. 59.
- ^ Philosophy and Animal Life. Columbia University Press. 2008.
- ^ Revolution of the Ordinary. University of Chicago Press.
- ISBN 9780804766890.
- ^ Cantor, Jay (Summer 1981). "On Stanley Cavell". Raritan. 1 (1).
- ISBN 978-1-13428-004-9.
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- ISBN 978-0-19537-093-5.
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- ^ Baskin, Jon (4 April 2010). "The Perspective of Terrence Malick". The Point.
- ^ Sousa, Ronald de (1985-07-14). "Why We Can't be Good". The New York Times.
- ISBN 9780226037417.
- ^ Paul W. Franks
- ^ Lahav, Gil (1994). "An Interview with Ross McElwee". PBS.
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- ^ Hearne, Vicki (2019-03-06). "The Claim of Speech". Poetry Foundation.
- ISBN 978-0-67401-315-5.
- ^ Bannes, Simon (25 August 2008). "Entre Stanley Cavell et Arnaud Desplechin". Nonfiction.
- ^ Mendieta, Eduardo (Fall 2004). "Empire, Pragmatism, and War: A Conversation with Cornel West". Logos. 3 (4). Archived from the original on 18 October 2004.
- ^ "Screening Room 1972-1981". May 2013.
- ^ Sjöstedt, Johanna (8 March 2013). "What is feminist philosophy?". Eurozine.
- ISSN 1527-2095.
- ^ Little Did I Know, 21 (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2010).
- ^ Little Did I Know, 24 (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2010).
- ^ Little Did I Know, 169 (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2010).
- ^ Harrison Smith, "Stanley Cavell, philosopher who drew insights from Shakespeare and cinema, dies at 91," Washington Post obituary, June 21, 2018.
- ^ Little Did I Know, 85, 157-62, 166, 183 (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2010).
- ^ Little Did I Know, 220-225 (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2010).
- ^ Little Did I Know, 247 (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2010).
- ^ The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality and Tragedy, xv (New York: Oxford, 1979).
- ^ Little Did I Know, 326 (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2010).
- ^ Little Did I Know, 149 (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2010).
- ^ Little Did I Know, 435 (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2010).
- ^ Little Did I Know, 373 (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2010).
- ^ Little Did I Know, 508–512 (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2010).
- ^ "An Evening with Stanley Cavell - Harvard Film Archive". Archived from the original on 2011-06-10.
- ^ a b "Department of Philosophy".
- ^ Spinozaleerstoel afdeling Filosofie
- ^ "Stanley Cavell, Prominent Harvard Philosopher, Dies at 91". The New York Times. June 20, 2018. Retrieved June 21, 2018.
- ^ Stanley Cavell Obituary
- ^ ISBN 978-1-7883-1025-3.
- ISBN 978-1-350-07902-1.
- ISBN 978-1-78660-289-3.
- ^ Gordon C. F. Bearn. “Sounding Serious: Cavell and Derrida.” Representations, no. 63, University of California Press, 1998, pp. 65–92, https://doi.org/10.2307/2902918.
- ISBN 978-1-000-02800-3.
- ^ Jones, Joe R. (July 1977). "Some Remarks on Authority and Revelation in Kierkegaard". The Journal of Religion. 57 (3): 237.
- ^ Cavell, Pursuits of Happiness, 1981, pp. 4–5.
- ^ Cavell, Pursuits of Happiness, 1981, p. 136.
- ^ Cavell, Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow (Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London: Harvard University Press, 2005), p. 19.
Further reading
Books
- Michael Fischer, Stanley Cavell and Literary Criticism, Chicago U.P., 1989
- Richard Fleming and Michael Payne (eds), The Senses of Stanley Cavell, Bucknell U.P., 1989
- Ted Cohen, Paul Guyer, and Hilary Putnam, eds., Pursuits of Reason: Essays in Honor of Stanley Cavell, Texas Tech U.P., 1993
- Stephen Mulhall, Stanley Cavell: Philosophy’s Recounting of the Ordinary, Clarendon Press, 1994
- Timothy Gould, Hearing Things: Voice and Method in the Writing of Stanley Cavell, Chicago U.P., 1998
- Espen Hammer, Stanley Cavell: Skepticism, Subjectivity, and the Ordinary, Polity Press/Blackwell’s, 2002
- Richard Eldridge (ed.), Stanley Cavell, Cambridge U.P., 2003
- Sandra Laugier, Une autre pensée politique américaine: La démocratie radicale d’Emerson á Stanley Cavell, Michel Houdiard Ēditeur, 2004
- Russell Goodman (ed.), Contending with Stanley Cavell, Oxford U.P., 2005.
- Alice Crary and Sanford Shieh (eds.), Reading Cavell, Routledge, 2006.
- William Rothman and Marian Keane, Reading Cavell's The World Viewed, 2000.
- Catherine Wheatley, Stanley Cavell and Film: Scepticism and Self-Reliance at the Cinema, 2019.
- David LaRocca (ed.), The Thought of Stanley Cavell and Cinema, 2019.
Articles
- The Stanley Cavell Special Issue: Writings and Ideas on Film Studies, An Appreciation in Six Essays, Film International, Issue 22, Vol. 4, No. 4 (2006), Jeffrey Crouse, guest editor. The essays include those by Diane Stevenson, Charles Warren, Anke Brouwers and Tom Paulus, William Rothman, Morgan Bird, and George Toles.
- "Why Not Realize Your World?" Philosopher/Film Scholar William Rothman Interviewed by Jeffrey Crouse" in Film International, Issue 54, Vol. 9, No. 6 (2011): 59–73.
- Special Section on Stanley Cavell. Film-Philosophy, Vol. 18 (2014): 1-171. Articles by William Rothman, Robert Sinnerbrink, David Macarthur, Richard Rushton, and Lisa Trahair.
- "In Focus: Cavell in Words," Philosophy and Literature, Vol. 40, No. 2 (2016): 446-94. Three essays by, respectively, Áine Mahon and Fergal McHugh, Peter Dula, and Erika Kidd.
External links
- Harvard Philosophy Department website
- Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies
- A Philosopher Goes to the Movies: Conversation with Stanley Cavell
- Daniel Ross, Review of Cavell, Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow
- A study (in French) on Cavell's idea of perfectionism
- Stanley Cavell
- PennSound page with audio and video links
- Radio interview by Charles Bernstein