Must We Mean What We Say by Cavell (73 results)

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Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. 30p offprint, A4 format, printed in brown ink, part of the Bobbs-Merrill Reprint Series in Philosophy, punch holes along edge for insertion in a ring-binder, well preserved Language: English.

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xxix +365 pp w/index. Near fine in full red cloth. No dust jacket. First printing of this edition (originally published in 1969).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Revised. 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.

Hard Cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Revised. 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. As new in shrinkwrap, ISBN sticker on rear cover; xlii, 365 pages; indexes. Size: Octavo.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. "Modern Philosophical Essays in Morality, Religion, Drama, Music and Criticism." Influential American philosopher's first book, a collection of essays linked by their use of ordinary language analysis to address a variety of concerns, including the philosophies of Wittgenstein, Austin, Kierkegaard; literary aesthetics in Beckett's Endgame and Shakespeare's King Lear; music, meaning. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; first edition (first printing), with "A-4.69[c]" on copyright page. Light wear to book, base of spine bumped, small faint stain to page edges; jacket shows minor wear, front flap clipped above $7.95 price, as issued; minor dents to free endsheet, light small stains (coffee?) to a couple of pages. Text otherwise clean, no names or marks; xxix, [3], 365 pages; indexes. Size: Octavo.

Large Octavo (17 cm x 23,5 cm). XXIX, 365 pages. Hardcover / Original cloth / Softcover. All books in very good or better condition; many signed or inscribed. A rare opportunity to look into the mind of an important philosophical thinker through his annotations and notes, especially in the book on Sartre. Stanley Louis Cavell (September 1, 1926 June 19, 2018) was an American philosopher. He was the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University. He worked in the fields of ethics, aesthetics, and ordinary language philosophy. As an interpreter, he produced influential works on Wittgenstein, Austin, Emerson, Thoreau, and Heidegger. His work is characterized by its conversational tone and frequent literary references. Cavell was born to a Jewish family in Atlanta, Georgia. His mother, a locally renowned pianist, trained him in music from his earliest days. During the Depression, Cavell's parents moved several times between Atlanta and Sacramento, California. As an adolescent, Cavell played lead alto saxophone as the youngest member of a black jazz band in Sacramento. He entered the University of California, Berkeley, where, along with his lifelong friend Bob Thompson (musician), he majored in music, studying with, among others, Roger Sessions and Ernest Bloch. After graduation, he studied composition at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City, only to discover that music was not his calling. He entered graduate school in philosophy at UCLA, and then transferred to Harvard University. As a student there he came under the influence of J. L. Austin, whose teaching and methods "knocked him off . [his] horse." In 1954 he was awarded a Junior Fellowship at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Before completing his Ph.D., he became an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1956. Cavell's daughter by his first wife (Marcia Cavell), Rachel Lee Cavell, was born in 1957. In 196263 Cavell was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, where he befriended the British philosopher Bernard Williams. Cavell's marriage to Marcia ended in divorce in 1961. In 1963 he returned to the Harvard Philosophy Department, where he became the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value. In the summer of 1964, Cavell joined a group of graduate students, who taught at Tougaloo College, a historically black college in Mississippi, as part of what became known as the Freedom Summer. He and Cathleen (Cohen) Cavell were married in 1967. In April 1969, during the student protests (chiefly arising from the Vietnam War), Cavell, helped by his colleague John Rawls, worked with a group of African-American students to draft language for a faculty vote to establish Harvard's Department of African and African-American Studies. In 1976, Cavell's first son, Benjamin, was born. In 1979, along with the documentary filmmaker Robert H. Gardner, Cavell helped found the Harvard Film Archive, to preserve and present the history of film. Cavell received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1992. In 1996-97 Cavell was president of the American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division). In 1984, his second son, David, was born. Cavell remained on the Harvard faculty until retiring in 1997. Thereafter, he taught courses at Yale University and the University of Chicago. He also held the Spinoza Chair of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam in 1998. Cavell died in Boston, Massachusetts of heart failure on June 19, 2018, at the age of 91. He was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery. (Wikipedia) Sprache: english.

First edition, first printing. 8vo. xxix, [3], 365, [1] pp. Original yellow cloth, spine lettered in blue, dust jacket (contents clean and unmarked; only minor shelf wear to extremities of jacket, else a near fine copy). New York, Charles Scribner's Sons. Inscribed by the author 'For Ida and Sydney from Stanley' in blue ink to the front free endpaper. The first book by the American philosopher Stanley Cavell, a collection of essays on ordinary language philosophy in which 'he addresses aesthetic issues in a more overt and exacting way than he does in any of his other publications. In fact, he argues for a more important and central place for aesthetics within the practice of philosophy. Cavell addresses a range of aesthetic topics: he analyzes the relationship between aesthetics and criticism, probes aesthetic questions regarding artistic mediums and genres, and explicates issues surrounding notions of intentions, significance, and pleasure. The book also includes some examples of his dramatic criticism' (Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers).