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1	Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage more books like this by Stanley Cavell add to wishlist During the 30's and 40's, Hollywood produced a genre of madcap comedies that emphasized reuniting the central couple after divorce or separation. And the female protagonists were strong, independent, and sophisticated. Here, Stanley Cavell examines seven of those classic movies for their cinematic techniques, and for such varies themes as feminism ... see all copies from $10.85! new only from $19.16! \| SVS
2	Must We Mean What We Say?: A Book of Essays more books like this by Stanley Cavell add to wishlist This is a remarkable, and now famous, volume of philosophical studies. The essays span and connect topics in the philosophy of language, aesthetics, and a criticism of literature, drama and music. The style and the range and integration of interests are alike individual, ambitious and arresting. The book is a distinguished personal work, of ... see all copies from $14.99! new only from $19.45! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Contesting Tears: The Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman more books like this by Stanley Cavell add to wishlist Stanley Cavell identified a genre of classic American films that engaged these questions in his study of comedies of remarriage, "Pursuits of Happiness". With "Contesting Tears", Cavell demonstrates that a contrasting genre, which he calls "the melodrama of the unknown woman," shares a surprising number and weave of concerns with those comedies. ... see all copies from $11.00! new only from $16.75! \| first editions
4	The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy more books like this by Stanley Cavell add to wishlist This reissue of an American philosophical classic includes a new preface by Cavell, in which he discusses the work's reception and influence. The work fosters a fascinating relationship between philosophy and literature both by augmenting his philosophical discussions with examples from literature and by applying philosophical theories to literary ... see all copies from $14.65! new only from $29.44! \| SVS
5	Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life more books like this by Stanley Cavell add to wishlist Since Socrates and his circle first tried to frame the Just City in words, discussion of a perfect communal life - a life of justice, reflection, and mutual respect - has had to come to terms with the distance between that idea and reality. Measuring this distance step by practical step is the philosophical project that Stanley Cavell has pursued ... see all copies from $5.12! new only from $17.50! \| first editions \| SVS
6	In Quest of the Ordinary: Lines of Skepticism and Romanticism more books like this by Stanley Cavell add to wishlist These lectures by one of the most influential and original philosophers of the twentieth century constitute a sustained argument for the philosophical basis of romanticism, particularly in its American rendering. Through his examination of such authors as Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Wordsworth, and Coleridge, Stanley Cavell shows that romanticism and ... see all copies from $17.07! new only from $18.67! \| SVS
7	A Pitch of Philosophy: Autobiographical Exercises more books like this by Stanley Cavell add to wishlist This work is an introduction to the life of philosophy in the United States, as Emerson once lived it, in all its topographical ambiguity. see all copies from $14.12! new only from $22.53! \| SVS
8	Life and Words: Violence and the Descent Into the Ordinary more books like this by Veena Das, Stanley Cavell (Foreword by) add to wishlist In this powerful, compassionate work, one of anthropology's most distinguished ethnographers weaves together rich fieldwork with a compelling critical analysis in a book that will surely make a signal contribution to contemporary thinking about violence and how it affects everyday life. Veena Das examines case studies including the extreme ... see all copies from $13.64! new only from $21.95! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Disowning Knowledge: In Seven Plays of Shakespeare more books like this by Stanley Cavell add to wishlist Reissued with a new essay on Macbeth this famous collection of essays on Shakespeare's tragedies considers these plays as responses to the crisis of knowledge and the emergence of modern skepticism provoked by the new science of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. see all copies from $19.00! new only from $19.00! \| SVS
10	The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film, Enlarged Edition more books like this by Stanley Cavell add to wishlist A philosophical study of popular movies uses the viewer as a point of reference. see all copies from $15.67! new only from $21.62! \| SVS
11 view cover	Disowning Knowledge: In Six Plays of Shakespeare more books like this by Stanley Cavell add to wishlist Since the publication of his celebrated first essay on Shakespeare, The Avoidance of Love: A reading of King Lear, Stanley Cavell has continued to explore radically new and provocative interpretations of a number of the plays. This volume collects those writings for the first time and includes pieces not previously published. The essays are bound ... see all copies from $9.25! new only from $99.00!
12 view cover	The Senses of Walden: An Expanded Edition more books like this by Stanley Cavell add to wishlist Stanley Cavell one of America's most distinguished philosophers, has written an invaluable companion volume to Walden, a seminal book in our cultural heritage. This expanded edition includes two essays on Emerson. see all copies from $5.92! new only from $12.50!
13	The Senses of Walden more books like this by Stanley Cavell add to wishlist see all copies from $5.49! first editions
14 view cover	Themes Out of School: Effects and Causes more books like this by Stanley Cavell add to wishlist In the first essay of this book, Stanley Cavell characterizes philosophy as a 'willingness to think not about something other than what ordinary human beings think bout, but rather to learn to think undistractedly about things that ordinary human beings cannot help thinking about, or anyway cannot help having occur to them, sometimes in fantasy, ... see all copies from $2.68! new only from $14.06! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Philosophy the Day After Tomorrow more books like this by Stanley Cavell add to wishlist Nietzsche characterized the philosopher as the man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow - a description befitting Stanley Cavell, with his longtime interest in freedom in the face of an uncertain future. This interest, particularly in the role of language in freedom of the will, is fully engaged in this volume, a collection of retrospective and ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $14.05! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Ordinary Language Criticism: Literary Thinking After Cavell After Wittgenstein more books like this by Kenneth Dauber (Editor), Mr. Walter Jost (Editor), Stanley Cavell (Afterword by) add to wishlist What is ordinary language criticism? In a series of essays on texts and figures ranging from Genesis to Don Quixote to Proust, Henry James, Martin Heidegger, and Robert Frost, this work sets out to recover "ordinariness" as the overlooked point of departure and return in literary studies and to point up the various aesthetic, ethical, and even ... see all copies from $16.08! new only from $20.95! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Cavell on Film more books like this by Stanley Cavell, William Rothman (Editor) add to wishlist This extensive collection offers a substantially complete retrospective of, Stanley Cavell's previously uncollected writings on film. Cavell is the only major philosopher in the Anglo-American tradition who has made film a central concern of his work, and his work offers inspiration and new directions to the field of film studies. The essays and ... see all copies from $21.60! new only from $21.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome: The Constitution of Emersonian Perfectionism more books like this by Stanley Cavell add to wishlist In these lectures, Stanley Cavell situates Emerson at the intersection of three crossroads: a place where both philosophy and literature pass; where the two traditions of English and German philosophy shun one another; where the cultures of America and Europe unsettle one another. The tone of Cavell's writing is set in the introduction when he ... see all copies from $4.48! new only from $14.05!
19 view cover	Cavell Reader more books like this by Stanley Cavell, Stephen Mulhall (Editor) add to wishlist 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. The readings are taken from every one of the major fields in which Cavell ... see all copies from $17.00! new only from $40.81! \| SVS
20	Jean-Luc Godard's Hail Mary: Women and the Sacred in Film more books like this by Maryel Locke (Editor), Charles Warren (Editor), Stanley Cavell (Foreword by) add to wishlist Maryel Locke and Charles Warren present twelve original essays by film critics, filmmakers, theologians, and philosophers that examine the 1985 film "Hail Mary, "directed by Jean-Luc Godard, and its companion film, "The Book of Mary, "directed by Anne-Marie Mieville. (The films are collectively released under the title "Hail Mary.) "The ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $37.89! \| first editions
21 view cover	Beyond Document more books like this by Charles Warren (Editor), Stanley Cavell add to wishlist Critics and writers consider nonfiction film both as document and as creative work with strong artistic, political, and moral implications. see all copies from $15.25! new only from $22.00! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Contending with Stanley Cavell more books like this by Russell B Goodman (Editor), Stanley Cavell add to wishlist Stanley Cavell has been a brilliant, idiosyncratic presence in American philosophy literary criticism, and cultural studies for years. Even as, he continues to produce new writing of a high quality - an example of which is included in this collection - his work has elicited responses from a new generation of writers in Europe and America. This ... see all copies from $12.00! new only from $45.90! \| SVS
23 view cover	Derrida and Austin more books like this by Stanley Cavell add to wishlist 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", ... see all copies from $28.00! new only from $39.04! \| SVS
24 view cover	The Scandal of the Speaking Body: Don Juan with J. L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages more books like this by Professor Shoshana Felman, Stanley Cavell (Foreword by), Judith P Butler (Afterword by) add to wishlist What is a promise? What are the consequences of the act of promising? In this bold yet subtle meditation, the author contemplates the seductive promise of speech and the seductive promise of love. Imagining an encounter between Moliere's Don Juan and J. L. Austin, between a mythical figure of the French classical theater and a twentieth-century ... see all copies from $15.51! new only from $15.51!
25 view cover	Making Forest of Bliss: Intention, Circumstance, and Chance in Nonfiction Film more books like this by Robert Gardner, Akos Ostor, Stanley Cavell (Introduction by) add to wishlist This volume presents a dialogue between Robert Gardner and Akos Ostor. Recalling the conditions of filming "Forest of Bliss" in Benares, India in 1985 and presenting their impressions upon watching it several years later. see all copies from $20.00! new only from $54.65!

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