{"product_id":"the-cavell-reader-isbn-9780631197430","title":"The Cavell Reader","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA personal glimpse inside the mind of a leading philosopher\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cavell Reader\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e Acknowledgements vii \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrologue: The Avoidance of Love (The Abdication Scene) 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. The Normal and the Natural 31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Knowing and Acknowledging 46\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. \"The Frog and the Craftsman\" 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. The Avoidance of Love (External-World Skepticism) 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Ending the Waiting Game 94\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Music Discomposed 113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Kierkegaard's On Authority and Revelation 127\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. The Avoidance of Love (Theater) 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. \"Photograph, Screen, and Star\" 156\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. The Same and Different: The Awful Truth 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Macbeth Appalled 197\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Psychoanalysis and Cinema: The Melodrama of the Unknown Woman 221\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. The Ordinary as the Uneventful 253\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Words and Sentences 260\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Being Odd, Getting Even 295\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Declining Decline 321\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. Moral Perfectionism 353\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue: The Investigations' Everyday Aesthetics of Itself 369\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStanley Cavell: A Bibliography 1951-1995 390\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex of Themes and Concepts 415\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex of Names and Titles 418\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStephen Mulhall\u003c\/strong\u003e is Reader Philosophy at Essex University and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eOn Being in the World\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990182412517,"sku":"NP9780631197430","price":44.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631197430.jpg?v=1761786819","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-cavell-reader-isbn-9780631197430","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}