Stanley Cavell (Contemporary Philosophy in Focus)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 24, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780521779722
Subjects: American studies; Films, cinema; History of ideas, intellectual history; Literary studies: general; Music; Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; Philosophy; Cavell, Stanley,; Biography & Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; History & Surveys - Modern; Philosophy / History, Criticism, Surveys; Philosophers; 1926-
First sentence: In an early essay, Stanley Cavell writes that the problem of the ordinary language philosopher-a problem from which he himself takes his bearings-is "to discover the specific plight of mind and circumstance within which a human being gives voice to his condition."