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Presents an original, insightful, and compelling vision of the trajectory of Cavell''s oeuvre, one that takes his kinship with Emerson as inextricably bound up with his ever-deepening thinking about movies.

From The World Viewed to Cities of Words, writing about movies was strand over strand with Stanley Cavell''s philosophical work. Cavell was one of the first philosophers in the United States to make film a significant focus of his thought, and William Rothman has long been one of his most astute readers. The Holiday in His Eye collects Rothman''s writings about Cavell-many of them previously unpublished-to offer a lucid, serious introduction to and overview of Cavell''s work, the influence of which has been somewhat limited by both the intrinsic difficulty of his ideas and his challenging prose style. In these engaging and accessible yet philosophically serious and rigorously argued essays, Rothman presents an original, insightful, and compelling vision of the trajectory of Cavell''s oeuvre, one that takes Cavell''s kinship with Emerson as inextricably bound up with his ever-deepening thinking about movies.

The Holiday in His Eye

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      Publisher State University of New York Press
      Published 7 February 2022
      ISBN-13 9781438486062
      978-1438486062
      ISBN-10 1438486065
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      Entertainment Film history, theory or criticism Philosophical traditions and schools of thought Philosophy: aesthetics

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Presents an original, insightful, and compelling vision of the trajectory of Cavell''s oeuvre, one that takes his kinship with Emerson as inextricably bound up with his ever-deepening thinking about movies.

      From The World Viewed to Cities of Words, writing about movies was strand over strand with Stanley Cavell''s philosophical work. Cavell was one of the first philosophers in the United States to make film a significant focus of his thought, and William Rothman has long been one of his most astute readers. The Holiday in His Eye collects Rothman''s writings about Cavell-many of them previously unpublished-to offer a lucid, serious introduction to and overview of Cavell''s work, the influence of which has been somewhat limited by both the intrinsic difficulty of his ideas and his challenging prose style. In these engaging and accessible yet philosophically serious and rigorously argued essays, Rothman presents an original, insightful, and compelling vision of the trajectory of Cavell''s oeuvre, one that takes Cavell''s kinship with Emerson as inextricably bound up with his ever-deepening thinking about movies.

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