Here and There : : Sites of Philosophy / / Stanley Cavell; ed. by Alice Crary, Sandra Laugier, Nancy Bauer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Cavell, Stanley,
• HerausgeberIn: Bauer, Nancy,; Crary, Alice,; Laugier, Sandra,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)

The first posthumous collection from the writings of Stanley Cavell, shedding new light on the distinctive vision and intellectual trajectory of an influential American philosopher. For Stanley Cavell, philosophy was a matter of responding to the voices of others. Throughout his career, he articulated the belief that words spring to life in concrete circumstances of speech: the significance and power of language depend on the occasions that elicit it. When Cavell died in 2018, he left behind some of his own most powerful language—a plan for a book collecting numerous unpublished essays and lectures, as well as papers printed in niche journals. Here and There presents this manuscript, with thematically relevant additions, for the first time. These writings, composed between the 1980s and the 2000s, reflect Cavell’s expansive interests and distinctive philosophical method. The collection traverses all the major themes of his immense body of work: modernity, psychoanalysis, the human voice, moral perfectionism, tragedy, skepticism. Cavell’s rich and cohesive philosophical vision unites his wide-ranging engagement with poets, critics, psychoanalysts, social scientists, and fellow philosophers. In Here and There, readers will find dialogues with Shakespeare, Thoreau, Wittgenstein, Freud, Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Wallace Stevens, Veena Das, and Peter Kivy, among others. One of the collection’s most striking features is an ensemble of five pieces on music, constituting Cavell’s first discussion of the subject since the mid-1960s. Edited by philosophers who have been invested in Cavell’s work for decades, Here and There not only gathers the strands of a writing life but also maps its author’s intellectual journeys. In these works, Cavell models what it looks like to examine seriously one’s own passions and to forge new communities through unexpected conversations.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editors’ Introduction -- Prologue: A Site for Philosophy? -- Part I. Departures -- 1. Time after Time -- 2. The World as Things: Collecting Thoughts on Collecting -- 3. The Division of Talent -- 4. To Place Wittgenstein -- 5. Notes after Austin -- Part II. Assignments -- 6. Silences Noises Voices -- 7. Benjamin and Wittgenstein: Signals and Affinities -- 8. Remains to Be Seen: Initial Responses to The Arcades Project -- 9. Finding Words: Adam Phillips’s Ordinary Language Psychoanalysis -- 10. Welcoming Jean Laplanche -- 11. On a Psychoanalytical Response to Faulkner’s Form -- 12. Notes Mostly about Empathy -- 13. Comments on Veena Das, “Language and Body” -- 14. Foreword to Veena Das, Life and Words -- 15. Foreword to Northrop Frye, A Natural Perspective -- 16. In the Meantime -- 17. Who Disappoints Whom? Allan Bloom at Harvard -- 18. Preface to the Italian Edition of The Claim of Reason -- 19. Reflections on Wallace Stevens at Mount Holyoke -- 20. Foreword to Qu’est-ce que la philosophie américaine? -- Part III. Music -- 21. An Understanding with Music -- 22. Kivy on Idomeneo -- 23. Philosophy and the Unheard -- 24. Impressions of Revolution -- 25. A Scale of Eternity -- Epilogue: Bon Voyage -- Appendix: Draft Preface to Here and There -- Notes -- Editors’ Acknowledgments -- Index