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Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1956.
In Movies with Stanley Cavell in Mind, some of the scholars who
have become essential for our understanding of Stanley Cavell's
writing on film gather to use his landmark contributions to help us
read new films-from Hollywood and elsewhere-that exist beyond his
immediate reach and reading. In extending the scope of Cavell's
film philosophy, we naturally find ourselves contending with it and
amending it, as the case may be. Through a series of interpretive
vignettes, the group effort situates, for the expert and novitiate
alike, how Cavell's writing on film can profitably enrich one's
experience of cinema generally and also inform how we might
continue the practice of serious philosophical criticism of
specific films mindful of his sensibility. The resulting
conversations between texts, traditions, disciplines, genres, and
generations creates propitious conditions for discovering what it
means to watch and listen to movies with Stanley Cavell in mind.
Russian Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century: An Anthology
provides the English-speaking world with access to post-Soviet
philosophic thought in Russia for the first time. The Anthology
presents the fundamental range of contemporary philosophical
problems in the works of prominent Russian thinkers. In contrast to
the "single-mindedness" of Soviet-era philosophers and the bias
toward Orthodox Christianity of emigre philosophers, it offers to
its readers the authors' plurality of different positions in widely
diverse texts. Here one finds strictly academic philosophical works
and those in an applied, pragmatic format-secular and
religious-that are dedicated to complex social and political
matters, to pressing cultural topics or insights into international
terrorism, as well as to contemporary science and global
challenges.
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