Must We Mean What We Say? A Book of Essays: Updated Edition

Cavell, Stanley

ISBN 10: 0521821886 / ISBN 13: 9780521821889

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002

About this Item

Cavell's important collection of essays, with a new 14-page preface discussing some of the thoughts behind the essays, some 30+ years later. Subjects include the work of Wittgenstein, Austin, Kierkegaard; aesthetics in literature, music, & theater; use of language, the nature and expression of philosophy. Hardcover, as pictured; no jacket, as issued. Minor bumps to corners, tiny dents to upper spine, ISBN sticker on rear cover. Text clean, no names or marks; xlii, 365 pages; indexes. Size: Octavo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Must We Mean What We Say? A Book of Essays: Updated Edition
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0521821886
• ISBN 13: 9780521821889
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: Revised.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy
  • Literature

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Synopsis

Reissued with an additional preface these famous essays cover a wide range of philosophical issues.

Review

"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, author of Upheavals of Thought

"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, author of Contingency, Irony and Solidarity