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Stanley Cavell on Aesthetic Understanding

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Editors:
  1. Garry L. Hagberg

    1. Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA

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  • Presents a coherent set of new writings from internationally well-known and emerging figures investigating the importance of Stanley Cavell’s body of work
  • Fills a gap in the present work on Cavell and points out clear directions for future research
  • Offers a multi-perspective and timely examination of the role Cavell’s philosophy plays in the continuing expansion of aesthetics

Part of the book series: Philosophers in Depth (PID)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Understanding Persons Through Film

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. I Want to Know More About You: On Knowing and Acknowledging in Chinatown

      • Francey Russell
      Pages 3-35

    3. Other Minds and Unknown Women: The Case of Gaslight

      • Jay R. Elliott
      Pages 37-55

    4. The Melodrama of the Unknown Man

      • Peter Dula
      Pages 57-72

  3. Shakespeare, Opera, and Philosophical Interpretation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
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    2. Cordelia’s Moral Incapacity in King Lear

      • David A. Holiday
      Pages 75-108

    3. Disowning Certainty: Tragic and Comic Skepticism in Cavell, Montaigne, and Shakespeare

      • V. Stanley Benfell
      Pages 109-131

    4. Must We Mean What We Sing?—Così Fan Tutte and the Lease of Voice

      • Ian Ground
      Pages 133-164

  4. Aesthetic Understanding and Moral Life

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165
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    2. What Matters: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Importance

      • Sandra Laugier
      Pages 167-195

    3. Achilles’ Tears: Cavell, the Iliad, and Possibilities for the Human

      • David LaRocca
      Pages 197-237

    4. Wittgenstein “in the Midst of” Life, Death, Sanity, Madness—and Mathematics

      • Richard McDonough
      Pages 239-262

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 357-365
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About this book

This book investigates the scope and significance of Stanley Cavell’s lifelong and lasting contribution to aesthetic understanding. Focusing on various strands of the rich body of Cavell’s philosophical work, the authors explore connections between his wide-ranging writings on literature, music, film, opera, autobiography, Wittgenstein, and Austin to contemporary currents in aesthetic thinking. Most centrally, the writings brought together here from an international team of senior, mid-career, and emerging scholars, explore the illuminating power of Cavell’s work for our deeper and richer comprehension of the intricate relations between aesthetic and ethical understanding. The chapters show what aesthetic understanding consists of, how such understanding might be articulated in the tradition of Cavell following Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin, and why this mode of human understanding is particularly important. At a time of quickening interest in Cavell and the tradition of which he is acentral part and present-day leading exponent, this book offers insight into the deepest contributions of a major American philosopher and the profound role that aesthetic experience can play in the humane understanding of persons, society, and culture. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA

    Garry L. Hagberg

About the editor

Garry L. Hagberg is the James H. Ottaway Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Bard College, USA. Previous publications include Art as Language: Wittgenstein, Meaning, and Aesthetic Theory, Meaning and Interpretation: Wittgenstein, Henry James, and Literary Knowledge (1998), and Describing Ourselves: Wittgenstein and Autobiographical Consciousness (2008). He has contributed to various journals, collections, and reference works, and is Editor of the journal Philosophy and Literature. He also recently edited Wittgenstein on Aesthetic Understanding (Palgrave, 2017) for the Philosophers in Depth book series, and is presently writing a new book on the contribution literary experience makes to the formation of self and sensibility, Living in Words: Literature, Autobiographical Language, and the Composition of Selfhood (forthcoming).


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Stanley Cavell on Aesthetic Understanding

  • Editors: Garry L. Hagberg

  • Series Title: Philosophers in Depth

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97466-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-97465-1Published: 12 November 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07360-2Published: 28 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-97466-8Published: 31 October 2018

  • Series ISSN: 2947-552X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2947-5538

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 365

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Aesthetics

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