The Cavell Reader

The Cavell Reader

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Summary

This volume is a collection of readings from the work of Stanley Cavell, an influential 20th-century American philosopher. It provides those who are unfamiliar with Cavell's work with an overview of its strategic purpose, its central themes and its argumentative development.

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The Cavell Reader by Stephen Mulhall

A personal glimpse inside the mind of a leading philosopher The Cavell Reader is an introduction to one of the 20th century's most influential American philosophers. Stanley Cavell was well-known for the broad scope of his writing, which is a major theme of this book; topics include aesthetics, psychoanalysis, film theory, literary criticism, religion, Austin, Emerson, Wittgenstein, and more. Presented in a sequence that illustrates Cavell's evolution of thought through key periods and phases, these pieces provide an overview of the man behind the words, and serve as an introduction to his more famous philosophical work.

Stephen Mulhall is Reader Philosophy at Essex University and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is the author of On Being in the World.

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ISBN 13 9780631197430
ISBN 10 0631197435
Title The Cavell Reader
Author Stephen Mulhall
Series Wiley Blackwell Readers
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Year published 1996-10-02
Number of pages 432
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