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Must We Mean What We Say?: A Book of Essays (Cambridge Philosophy Classics) 2nd Edition, Kindle Edition

by Stanley Cavell (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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In 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. The essays explore issues as diverse as the opposing approaches of 'analytic' and 'Continental' philosophy, modernism, Wittgenstein, abstract expressionism and Schoenberg, Shakespeare on human needs, the difficulties of authorship, Kierkegaard and post-Enlightenment religion. Presented in a fresh twenty-first century series livery, and including a specially commissioned preface, written by Stephen Mulhall, illuminating its continuing importance and relevance to philosophical enquiry, this influential work is now available for a new generation of readers.
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    Cambridge University Press
  5. Publication date
    October 6, 2015
  6. Part of series
    Cambridge Philosophy Classics
  7. Language
    English
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"This book is still the best introduction to the wide-ranging thoughts and the powerful imagination of one of America's most distinguished men of letters. In it, Cavell weaves together Wittgenstein's reactions fo philosophical skepticism with Shakespeare's descriptions of human needs, and J.L. Austin's appeals to 'the ordinary' with reflections on how art lets us see familiar objects anew. No one since William James has been so successful at re-humanizing philosophy - at rescuing that academic discipline from hyperprofessional self-absorption." Richard Rorty, author of Contingency, Irony and Solidarity

"This book changed philosophy. When it was originally published it was both exhilirating and astonishing - for its daring disregard of disciplinary boundaries....No reader of Cavell should be surprised to observe that, now as then, new forms of reductionism, scientism, and sheer flight prove appealing to those for whom a complex human understanding is more than their hearts can bear." Martha Nussbaum, author of Upheavals of Thought

About the Author

Stanley Cavell is the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the Theory of Value, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He has published widely on a range of subjects from the analytic philosophical tradition to Shakespeare.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B015WJ16J2
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cambridge University Press; 2nd edition (October 6, 2015)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 6, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1245 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Up to 4 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 372 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1107113636
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Michael H.Friedman
5.0 out of 5 stars A Work that Delights and Instructs
Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2014
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This work embodies the classic ideal: dulce et utile. Sweet and useful. I recommend this book to anyone with (or seeking) an open mind and passion for self-improvement. I have been practicing corporate law for over 30 years and I attribute much of what I value in my work to Professor Cavell's work. If I had to reduce to one point the value in this book - to doctors, lawyers, economists, statisticians, psychologists, accountants, etc - it would be the tools the book provides - albeit through demonstration rather than through overt instruction - as to how each of us should ask ourselves whether problems presented for solution need to be re-formulated before an optimal solution can be explored. Indeed, this work promotes and facilitates an open mind, an inquiring mind.

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Hayden V. White
5.0 out of 5 stars his 790 page biography . . . . is as good as it gets for an American thinker enammoured of ...
Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2016
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A fascinating story of Stnley Cavell's love-hate relation with music, philosophy,and his inherited Judaism Cavell seems more interested in truth than most of his colleagues at Harvard; the problem is that he has a more rigorous or restricted notion of truth than most philosophers, even the cloistered who inhabit the Ivies. His book is not quiie as lively as his How Little I Knew, his 790 page biography but it is as good as it gets for an American thinker enammoured of Wittgenstein and Austen and enchanted by music, both classical and jazz.
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Good read.
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Nuri K
5.0 out of 5 stars Watch the deals. philosophically vibrant and so eloquently written,
Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2013
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Will finally have my own copy of this thanks to a 2$ used deal, and there are other ones too.

Trying to praise a book that has already been so widely praised feels obnoxious, suffice it to say that if you don't like it, you can sell it in NY and make profit.

Cavell gets to write even better the older he gets, IMO, I'd prefer, say, Claim of Reason, to MWMWWS. Then again, not the most pointful comparison.
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Profound and provocative early essays by the greatest living American philosopher.
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