Must We Mean What We Say? (2nd ed.)
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by Stanley Cavell
Cambridge University Press
Due/Published
September 2002, 396 pages,
paper
ISBN
0521529190
Reissued with a new preface, this well-known collection of essays covers a wide range of philosophical issues, including essays on Wittgenstein, Austin, Kierkegaard, and the philosophy of language, and extending beyond philosophy into discussions of music and drama. "This book changed philosophy. When it was originally published it was both exhilirating and astonishing - for its daring disregard of disciplinary boundaries. . . . No reader of Cavell should be surprised to observe that, now as then, new forms of reductionism, scientism, and sheer flight prove appealing to those for whom a complex human understanding is more than their hearts can bear." - Martha Nussbaum "This book is still the best introduction to the wide-ranging thoughts and the powerful imagination of one of America's most distinguished men of letters. In it, Cavell weaves together Wittgenstein's reactions fo philosophical skepticism with Shakespeare's descriptions of human needs, and J.L. Austin's appeals to 'the ordinary' with reflections on how art lets us see familiar objects anew. No one since William James has been so successful at re-humanizing philosophy - at rescuing that academic discipline from hyperprofessional self-absorption." - Richard Rorty Contents 1. Must we mean what we say?;
2. The availability of Wittgenstein's later philosophy;
3. Aesthetic problems of modern philosophy;
4. Austin at criticism;
5. Ending the waiting game: A reading of Beckett's Endgame;
6. Kierkegaard's On Authority and Revelation;
7. Music discomposed;
8. A matter of meaning it;
9. Knowing and acknowledging;
10. The avoidance of love: A reading of King Lear. |
