Must We Mean What We Say?: A Book of Essays (Cambridge Philosophy Classics) - Hardcover

Cavell, Stanley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107113636 ISBN 13: 9781107113633

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2016

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

Stanley Cavell's famous collection of essays includes discussions of issues in a diverse range of topics in philosophy, literature, the arts, politics and ethics, including his interpretation of 'ordinary language philosophy'. Presented in a fresh twenty-first-century series livery, this influential work is now available to a new generation of readers.

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1107113636
• ISBN 13: 9781107113633
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 368