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	cavell
		Stanley Cavell is an American philosopher, who with others like Richard Rorty -- though in very different ways -- has deliberately attempted to heal the epistemological rupture in the tradition of American public thought caused by a Viennese analytic strain of philosophy.
		Cavell is a philosopher, one of the few within the analytic tradition (if we still regard both Austin and Wittgenstein as somehow part of that tradition), who embodies Rorty’s (1991) notion of "philosophy as a kind of writing".
		Cavell (1996: 370) suggests that, motivated by his reading of Nietzsche, Heidegger and Derrida, it was only in his most recent rethinking did he begin "to move more systematically toward an articulation of Wittgenstein’s manner, the sheer sense of deliberateness and beauty of his writing, as internal to the sense of his philosophical aims".
	www.vusst.hr /ENCYCLOPAEDIA/cavell.htm (1781 words)

	Stanley Cavell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stanley Cavell (born September 1, 1926) of Brookline, Massachusetts is an American philosopher.
		Cavell is a philosopher trained in the Anglo-American analytic tradition, who usually engages in dialogue with the continental tradition.
		Cavell is known as a reader of the German-speaking philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger, and for his work on the American Transcendentalists, especially Henry Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stanley_Cavell (351 words)

	ipedia.com: Stanley Cavell Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Stanley Cavell is an American philosopher and Professor Emeritus at Harvard University.
		Stanley Cavell was born in 1926 is a philosopher in the critical tradition who is best known for his inclusion o...
		Stanley Cavell was born in 1926 is a philosopher in the critical tradition who is best known for his inclusion of film and literary study into to philosophical inquiry.
	www.ipedia.com /stanley_cavell.html (226 words)

	Deranging the Investigations: Cavell on the Figure of the Child
		Cavell attempts to rescue an "aesthetic-ethical" Wittgenstein, contextualised in a European intellectual milieu, located at the intersection of romanticism and skepticism and in relation to the question of modernism in the arts.
		Cavell advises that Philosophical Investigations should be considered as a text rather than a set of problems; that its quality may be inferred from the quality of other texts it arouses or stimulates others to write; that is is essentially a written text.
		Cavell approaches the ‘figure of the child’ as a recent turn in his thinking and indicates that this turn was one of the original reasons to publish the Notes.
	faculty.ed.uiuc.edu /burbules/syllabi/Materials/Cavell.html (3081 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Cavell honored with Romanell-PBK Professorship
		Stanley Cavell is the recipient of the Romanell-PBK Professorship.
		Stanley Cavell, the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value Emeritus, has received the 2004 Romanell-Phi Beta Kappa Professorship in Philosophy.
		Cavell said that in his lectures he will attempt to convey "my sense of two difficulties that have simultaneously inspired and hampered philosophical thinking and teaching over the past century - - if, as I do, one regards Wittgenstein and Heidegger as representing two of the fundamental philosophical achievements of this period.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2004/03.04/04-cavell.html (489 words)

	Free Essay Cavell And Film Theory
		Cavell's work has shown us that the entire modern history of philosophy can be viewed as dominated by a fixation on what he calls the "skeptical problematic," the idea that philosophy is locked in a kill- or-be-killed conflict with the skeptic who denies that the world can be known with certainty.
		Cavell's aspiration is to claim the inheritance of this philosophical tradition, to claim it for philosophy, to enable philoso- phy to claim it as its own.
		Cavell's aspiration as a philosopher is to enable philosophy to free itself, to awaken, from its history of repression its repression of an aspect of its own identity, its repression of his philosophical perspective, his way of thinking philosophically.
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=25798 (2001 words)

	PES Yearbook: 1998: Naoko Saito, On the Education of the Heart
		I conclude that Emerson and Cavell transform the traditional concept of the education of the heart from one that is goal-oriented to one dedicated to spiritual growth.
		Cavell's rejection of a pre-fixed moral ideal constitutes his Emersonian antimoralism, namely, the "enforcement of morality, or moral code, by immoral means," or fixation on the "presence of ideals in one's culture" (Conditions, 12).
		With Emerson and Cavell, the traditional concept of the education of the heart is transformed from one that is goal-oriented to one dedicated to spiritual growth.
	www.ed.uiuc.edu /eps/pes-yearbook/1998/saito.html (4034 words)

	Russell Goodman (ed.) - Contending with Stanley Cavell - Reviewed by Richard Eldridge, UniversitÃ¤t Erfurt / ...
		This charge, as Cavell notes, is clearly false, however, since Cavell maintains only that "Emerson's work presents itself as the realization of [a] vision" (165, emphasis added) of a union between philosophy and literature and of an achieved America.
		Under the influence of Cavell's thought, he achieves a depth of attention all at once to plot, camera movement, and filmed subjects and objects (in particular the banister knob that is always coming off in Jimmy Stewart's hand) that deserves to be a model for the study of film as an art.
		The essay of Cavell's that concludes the collection is entitled "Passionate and Performative Utterances." In it, Cavell undertakes to characterize the logic, as it were, of passionate utterances by drawing on Austin's mostly undeveloped account of perlocutions.
	ndpr.nd.edu /review.cfm?id=3421 (2701 words)

	In Search of the Ordinary: Leading Words Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The philosophical work of Stanley Cavell is based on the assumption, enunciated by Wittgenstein, that the task of philosophy is 'to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.' As Cavell reflects in his latest book: 'Philosophers before Wittgenstein had found that our lives are distorted or waylaid by illusion.
		But what amazes Cavell and Fischer is not the inescapable mendacity of language but the extraordinary depth of the 'mutual attunement' we ordinarily have with one another, the intimacy and pervasiveness of understanding and agreement, the sharing of feelings, values, judgments, concepts, and so on.
		Like his compatriot Richard Rorty, Stanley Cavell is a major player in the ongoing revival of American pragmatism and in the overall attempt to bridge the gap between Anglo-American and Continental philosophy as well as the gap between literature and philosophy.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/593/593_review_henderson.html (2483 words)

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		She charges that because Cavell has not named the women who have written about film melodrama, he "wishes to create the impression that he is the first person to discover the worth of these texts and to approach them with intellectual seriousness and critical generosity." The charge is pretty ugly.
		Cavell's study of Kierkegaard (1969) interprets Kierkegaard's long night of the soul as, in part, a fathoming of theological silence, God's silence (something which now, fascinatingly, appears to be the subject of Julia Kristeva's recent work).
		Cavell's study of Shakespeare's Coriolanus, "Interpretation of Politics," is mostly about Coriolanus' silence ("The theme of silence haunts the play" [Themes, 85]) as an expression of the human capacity to withhold words.
	www.hanover.edu /philos/film/vol_02/keane.htm (3282 words)

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		Instead of a refutation, Cavell revises skepticism to disclose its special "truth": that our relationship to the world and others is not a question of knowledge, where knowing is an epistemological issue of certitude, but rather a matter of acknowledgment, a recognition of the other as different and separate from oneself.
		Nevertheless, because Cavell's appeal to community is based on an aesthetic issue of "representative speech" (that is, on the procedures of ordinary language philosophy), Ziarek rightly claims that Cavell's formulation cannot signify different voices unharmonized within community, reducing them to mute and silent subjects (44).
		While she clearly rejects Cavell's notion of the "aesthetic unity of community," she also admirably locates within his own discussions of metaphor and modernism the undeveloped possibility for a less violent, alternative understanding of aesthetics.
	www3.iath.virginia.edu /pmc/text-only/issue.197/review-4.197 (2558 words)

	Tepper on Rothman/Keane
		Stanley Cavell, an American philosopher, Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics at Harvard since 1963 and Professor Emeritus since 1997, famously began his career while still a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley.
		For Cavell, it is not that there aren't differences, it is that their likenesses, their resemblances, are so pervasive and transparent they are missed.
		Cavell, however, doesn't make this as an assertion and the potentially fatal objection, like many others that could be offered along the way, must be treated as a mere cavil.
	www.film-philosophy.com /vol6-2002/n12tepper (2316 words)

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		Of course, to those who appreciate the seriousness of Cavell's philosophical aspirations, not to mention the extreme sophistication of his writing, the field's superior attitude is itself a clear indication that film study, not Cavell, is impossibly naive.
		Cavell understands this question about film's ontology also to be a question about what Wittgenstein would call the "grammar" of our concept of "film." Cavell understands this Wittgensteinian question, in turn, also to be a question about the roles films play in our forms of life.
		In his opening pages, Cavell tells us that when he was writing The World Viewed he felt he was writing a "metaphysical memoir" of a period of his life, the period in which the experience of going to the movies was a normal part of his week.
	www.hanover.edu /philos/film/vol_02/rothman.htm (2121 words)

	SUNY Press :: Cavell 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.
		All periods of Cavell's career are represented, from the 1970s to the present, and the book includes many previously unpublished essays written since the early 1990s.
		Stanley Cavell is Walter M. Cabot Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University.
	www.sunypress.edu /details.asp?id=61103 (371 words)

	Web Audio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Stanley Cavell, Emeritus Professor of philosophy at Harvard University, delivered the keynote address at the Pontigny Symposium held November 7, 2003, at Mount Holyoke College.
		Past President of the American Philosophical Association and a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, Cavell is the Walter M. Cabot Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard.
		Cavell responded to some of the questions Stevens posed at the original Pontigny colloquia regarding poetry as a form of resistance, the role of the imagination, and the relationship between philosophy and poetry.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /courses/mackmann/webaudio2/wcl/pontigny/cavell.html (234 words)

	Stanley Cavell - Cambridge University Press
		Stanley Cavell has been one of the most creative and independent of contemporary philosophical voices.
		At the core of his thought is the view that skepticism is not a theoretical position to be refuted by philosophical theory but is a reflection of the fundamental limits of human knowledge of the self, of others and of the external world that must be accepted.
		There are new accounts of Cavell’s contribution to the philosophy of mind and language, the theory of action, ethics, aesthetics, Romanticism, American philosophy, Shakespeare, and film and opera.
	www.cup.cam.ac.uk /catalogue/print.asp?isbn=0521779723&print=y (262 words)

	Steven E. Alford Book Review
		As such, most of the book is an explication of a slew of philosophers Cavell seeks to connect to the concerns of the films: Emerson, Locke, Mill, Kant, Rawls, Nietzsche, Freud, Plato, and so on.
		Cavell never seriously acts as if the films’ authors intended to link the antics of Cary Grant with Plato’s Myth of the Cave.
		Cavell himself has accomplished this quite successfully in some of his earlier works, such as Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage (1984), Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome (1988), and Contesting Tears (1997).
	www.nova.edu /~alford/reviews/cavell.html (630 words)

	Large, Unknown Men
		For Cavell's first full frontal action assault we need to witness the metaphysical onslaught that is The Claim of Reason, a tour de force that Eco may have described as a palimpsest constructed from Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, on the mystic moving projections of Plato's cave walls.
		Cavell presents his subjects as he sees fit, that is as he himself thinks of them, and only ever thus.
		Cavell, however, is not an Anglo-American trying to muscle in on the Continental tradition; he's much better than that.
	www.film-philosophy.com /vol1-1997/n1large (1041 words)

	Oxford University Press: Contending with Stanley Cavell: Russell B. Goodman
		Stanley Cavell has been a brilliant, idiosyncratic, and controversial presence in American philosophy, literary criticism, and cultural studies for years.
		This collection showcases this new work, while illustrating the variety of Cavell's interests: in the "ordinary language" philosophy of Wittgenstein and Austin, in film criticism and theory, in literature, psychoanalysis, and the American transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.
		The collection also reprints Richard Rorty's early review of Cavell's magnum opus, The Claim of Reason (1979), and it concludes with Cavell's substantial set of responses to the essays, a highlight of which is his engagement with Rorty.
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	UC Berkeley Graduate Council Lectures
		Stanley Cavell is one of the most distinguished American philosophers of our time and an influential thinker in film and literary studies, politics, and the arts.
		Cavell has published numerous books and scholarly articles, most recently "The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy" (1999), "Contesting Tears: the Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman,"(1996) and "The Cavell Reader,"(1996).
		Cavell received his A.B. in music from the University of California, Berkeley and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University.
	www.grad.berkeley.edu /lectures/howison/cavell.shtml (231 words)

	DUTY OF A GENIUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Cavell: So did I. Listen carefully, if you have somehow come to believe that rules do not apply for you, you are in delusion.
		Cavell: So your excuse is that his absence will prohibit or forestall any major work that you are to do.
		Cavell: You are the most promising PhD student I have ever had and you will probably be the last one.
	www.sinc.sunysb.edu /Stu/rchachra/DUTY.htm (1407 words)

	Office of Public Affairs at Yale - News Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		New Haven, Conn. -- Philosopher Stanley Cavell, the Walter M. Cabot Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University, joins the Yale faculty this semester as the Henry Luce Visiting Scholar in the Humanities and Social Thought.
		Cavell's Luce Seminar at Yale will extend the discussion of cinema presented in his highly-acclaimed "Pursuits of Happiness," and study five operas in conjunction with five related films.
		Stanley Cavell received his A.B. degree in music from the University of California (Berkeley) and his Ph.D degree in philosophy from Harvard.
	www.yale.edu /opa/newsr/99-01-08-01.all.html (253 words)

	Stanley Cavell on Alfred Hitchcock's NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Stanley Cavell on Alfred Hitchcock's NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)
		stanley cavell, american philosopher, teaching at harvard, wrote on hitchcock's film North by Northwest an essay, in which he tried to apply theories he first developped in his book 'pursuits of happiness'.
		i try to show on this website to trace all the scenes from hitchcock films cavell mentions and make it therefore easier to see, what cavell has had in mind.
	www.encore.at /cavell (135 words)

	cavell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Stanley E. Fish: With the Compliments of the Author: Reflections on Austin and Derrida (Summer 1982)
		In the case of the passages from Stanley Fish, it may be that my efforts will just amount to clearing up some unnecessarily confusing terminology; some passages from Paul de Man I find more troubling.
		Stanley Cavell, professor of philosophy at Harvard University, is the author of, among other works, Must We Mean What We Say?
	www.uchicago.edu /research/jnl-crit-inq/issues/date/v1-v19/v9n1.cavell.html (513 words)

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