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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.

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Prologue - the avoidance of love; the normal and the natural; knowing and acknowledging; "The Frog and the Craftsman"; the avoidance of love; ending the waiting game; music discompose; Kierkegaard's "On Authority and Revelation"; the avoidance of love; "Photograph, Screen and Star"; the same and different - the awful truth; Macbeth appalled; psychoanalysis and cinema - the melodrama of the unknown woman; the ordinary as the uneventful; words and sentences; being odd, getting even; declining decline; moral perfectionism. Epilogue: the investigation's everyday aesthetics of itself.

The Cavell Reader

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      Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Published 2 October 1996
      ISBN-13 9780631197430
      978-0631197430
      ISBN-10 0631197435
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      Western philosophy from c 1800

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      Prologue - the avoidance of love; the normal and the natural; knowing and acknowledging; "The Frog and the Craftsman"; the avoidance of love; ending the waiting game; music discompose; Kierkegaard's "On Authority and Revelation"; the avoidance of love; "Photograph, Screen and Star"; the same and different - the awful truth; Macbeth appalled; psychoanalysis and cinema - the melodrama of the unknown woman; the ordinary as the uneventful; words and sentences; being odd, getting even; declining decline; moral perfectionism. Epilogue: the investigation's everyday aesthetics of itself.

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