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Skepticism Films: Knowing and Doubting the World in ...
Philipp Schmerheim“The Fact of Television,” in Stanley Cavell, Cavell on Film, 59–85, edited and with an introduction by William Rothman. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. Cavell, Stanley. [1983] 2005. “The Thought of Movies,” in Stanley Cavell, ...
Cavell on Film
Stanley CavellIn his introduction, William Rothman provides an overview of Cavell's work on film and his aims as a philosopher more generally."--BOOK JACKET.
Must We Mean What We Say?: A Book of Essays
Stanley CavellIn this classic collection of wide-ranging and interdisciplinary essays, Stanley Cavell explores a remarkably broad range of philosophical issues from politics and ethics to the arts and philosophy.
Emerson's Transcendental Etudes
Stanley CavellThis book is Stanley Cavell_s definitive expression on Emerson. Over the past thirty years, Cavell has demonstrated that he is the most emphatic and provocative philosophical critic of Emerson that America has yet known.
In Quest of the Ordinary: Lines of Skepticism and Romanticism
Stanley CavellThrough his examination of such authors as Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Wordsworth, and Coleridge, Stanley Cavell shows that romanticism and American transcendentalism represent a serious philosophical response to the challenge of skepticism that ...
The Senses of Walden: An Expanded Edition
Stanley CavellStanley 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.
Contending with Stanley Cavell
PreviewThis 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 ...
Shakespeare and the Law
Preview17 Stanley Cavell, Disowning Knowledge in Seven Plays of Shakespeare ( updated edn, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004) 165. 18 Girard, n 16 above, at 210. 19 Cavell, n 17 above, at 168. 20 Brian C Lockey, Law and Empire in ...
Reading Cavell's The World Viewed: A Philosophical ...
William RothmanA philosophical reexamination of Stanley Cavell's The World Viewed.
Disowning Knowledge: In Seven Plays of Shakespeare
Stanley CavellReissued with an essay on Macbeth this is a collection of essays on Shakespeare's tragedies.
Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage
Stanley CavellLooks at seven classic romantic comedies of the thirties and forties, and compares what each film expresses about marriage, interdependence, equality, and sexual roles
The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and ...
Stanley CavellThe first three parts of this book deal with the tension between ordinary language philosophy (as envisioned in the writings of J.L. Austin and the later Wittgenstein) and the 'tradition.
Philosophy and Animal Life
Stanley CavellThis groundbreaking collection of contributions by leading philosophers offers a new way of thinking about animal rights, our obligation to animals, and the nature of philosophy itself.
Stanley Cavell and the Claim of Literature
David RudrumThanks to Jami Bartlett and her colleagues at the University of California, Irvine, for inviting me to talk about tragedy, and to Jan Balakian and Joshua Polster for the opportunity to air my views on Miller—both were immensely rewarding ...
Jeff Brown's Flat Stanley: The Flying Chinese Wonders
Josh GreenhutJosh Greenhut. Read all of Stanley Lambchop's adventures by Jeff Brown Flat Stanley Stanley and the Magic Lamp Invisible Stanley Stanley in Space Stanley's Christmas Adventure Stanley, Flat Again! And lots of new adventures! by Sara ...
Edith Cavell, Her Life Story (Classic Reprint)
Herbert LeedsExcerpt from Edith Cavell, Her Life Story Dear Madam, By command of the King and Queen I write to assure you that the hearts of their Majesties go out to you in your bitter sorrow, and to express their horror at the appalling deed which has
Stanley Cavell, Literature, and Film: The Idea of America
Preview... and Ken Hiltner Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg and Alexandra Schultheis Moore Resistance to Science in Contemporary American Poetry Bryan Walpert Magic, Science, and Empire ...
Critical Environments: Postmodern Theory and the Pragmatics ...
Cary WolfeUnique in its collation of major theorists rarely considered together, Critical Environments incorporates detailed discussions of the work of Richard Rorty, Walter Benn Michaels, Stanley Cavell, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, Niklas ...
Stanley and Allied Families: Descendants of Strangeman 3 ...
Ruth Stanley KuntzRuth Stanley Kuntz, Wayne Stanley Lewis, Paul L. Stanley, Thurston Quathamer, David Casner Stratton. GENERATION 9 and elementary grades in private and public schools for twenty-four years before retiring. She is a homemaker, volunteer ...
Forms of Desire: Sexual Orientation and the Social ...
PreviewSexual Orientation and the Social Constructionist Controversy Edward Stein ... 42 I am indebtedto Stanley Cavell, Lorraine Daston, Peter Galison, Ian Hacking, Erin Kelly, John McNees, and Joel Snyder for conversations on the topics of this ...
Emerson's Transatlantic Romanticism
D. GreenhamArsić, Branka. On Leaving: A Reading in Emerson. Harvard: Harvard UP, 2011. Print. —— and Cary Wolfe eds. ... Cavell, Stanley. The Senses of Walden ( Expanded Edition).San Francisco:North Point,1981. Print. —— In Questofthe Ordinary: ...
For King Or Country
Orange County California Genealogical Society-Elizabeth Stanley b 17 Feb 1796. -Andrew Stanley b 17 Mar 1798, m Mary Ann Craig. 3. -John Stanley b 24 Feb 1799. -James Stanley b 23 Jul 1801, d Jun 1863 , m Susan Miller. -Noah Stanley b 10 Sep 1803 Penn, d 14 Jun 1873 Ohio, ...
Philosophy and Animal Life
Stanley CavellIn Philosophy and Animal Life, Cora Diamond begins with "The Difficulty of Reality and the Difficulty of Philosophy," in which she accuses analytical philosophy of evading, or deflecting, the responsibility of human beings toward nonhuman ...
Stanley
Syd HoffBecause Stanley does not act like his fellow cavemen, they chase him away. But then Stanley invents the house'and becomes a hero'in this thought-provoking, funny story about an early nonconformist.
TEACHERS JOKE and STORY BOOK: COLLECTED by STANLEY B. GRAHAM
Stanley GrahamCOLLECTED by STANLEY B. GRAHAM Stanley Graham. 635. 636. 637. 638. 639. Joe: “They went to see CLOSED FOR THE SEASON.” Give two daffylnitions of a diplomat: (1) A man who remembers his wife's birthday but not her age (2) A ...
Invisible Stanley
Jeff BrownJoin everybody’s favourite flat boy for another magical adventure – It’s Jeff Brown’s Flat Stanley. Invisible Stanley It's a shock at first, but Stanley finds you can do amazing things when you're invisible.
Men of the Clyde: Stanley Spencer's vision at Port Glasgow
Sir Stanley SpencerFeatures Stanley Spencer's epic paintings of Lithgow's shipyard. The pictures depict the different trades and activities invloved in the great collective enterprise of building a ship.
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