{"product_id":"philosophical-passages-isbn-9780631192718","title":"Philosophical Passages","description":"In this most recent collection of his writing, Cavell provides extraordinary careful and sustained readings of Emerson's \"Fate\", Derrida's response to J. L. Austin in \"Signature Event Context\", and Wittgenstein's \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e Philosophical Investigations \u003cd\u003e\u003c\/d\u003e.  Preface. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Michael Payne and Richard Fleming.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Emerson's Constitutional Amending: Reading Emerson's \"Fate\".\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. What Did Derrida Want of Austin?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Seminar on \"What Did Derrida Want of Austin?\".\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. The Self of Philosophy: An Interview with Stanley Cavell.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Continuing Cavell: Side Roads of \"The Claim of Reason\": Richard Fleming.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Notes and Afterthoughts on the Opening of Wittgenstein's \u003ci\u003eInvestigations\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStanley Cavell: A Working Bibliography, 1951-1994: Compiled by Peter S. Fosl and Michael Payne.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eStanley Cavell\u003c\/b\u003e is Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University. In addition to lecturing at many American universities, he has delivered acclaimed lectures in Israel, Austria, France, and England. His books include: \u003ci\u003eMust We Mean What We Say?\u003c\/i\u003e (1969), \u003ci\u003eThe World Viewed\u003c\/i\u003e (1971, 1979), \u003ci\u003eThe Senses of Walden\u003c\/i\u003e (1972, 1981), \u003ci\u003eThe Claim of Reason\u003c\/i\u003e (1979), \u003ci\u003ePursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage\u003c\/i\u003e (1981), \u003ci\u003eDisowning Knowledge in Six Plays of Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e (1987), \u003ci\u003eIn Quest of the Ordinary\u003c\/i\u003e (1988), \u003ci\u003eThis New Yet Unapproachable America (1989)\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eConditions Handsome and Unhandsome\u003c\/i\u003e (1990). Stanley Cavell, one of the most important of contemporary American philosophers, has often returned to Emerson and Wittgenstein in his determination to recover vital links between American and European philosophy. In this most recent collection of his writing, Cavell provides extraordinary careful and sustained readings of Emerson's \"Fate\", Derrida's response to J. L. Austin in \"Signature Event Context\", and Wittgenstein's \u003ci\u003ePhilosophical Investigations.\u003c\/i\u003e The reading of \"Fate\" continues Cavell's investigation of Emerson's concept of thinking, which he began in the first chapter of \u003ci\u003eConditions Handsome and Unhandsome.\u003c\/i\u003e The reply to Derrida's remarks on Austin not only places Austin's theory of performative utterances in the context of his other writing but also recalls Austin's importance as a teacher and as an early influence on Cavell. \"Notes on the Opening of Wittgenstein's \u003ci\u003e Investigations\"\u003c\/i\u003e provides the rare opportunity of witnessing Cavell in the act of teaching a philosophical text. These much revised and updated notes, which have been circulating in manuscript since 1991 but are published here for the first time, were the basis of a portion of Cavell's lecture course on the\u003ci\u003e Investigations,\u003c\/i\u003e which he gave at Berkeley and later Harvard. They in part look back on the opening pages of \u003ci\u003eThe Claim of Reason.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989775073509,"sku":"NP9780631192718","price":54.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631192718.jpg?v=1761785431","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/philosophical-passages-isbn-9780631192718","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}