Stanley Cavell's work is distinctive not only in its importance to
philosophy but also for its remarkable interdisciplinary range.
Cavell is read avidly by students of film, photography, painting,
and music, but especially by students of literature, for whom
Cavell offers major readings of Thoreau, Emerson, Shakespeare, and
others. In this first book-length study of Cavell's writings,
Michael Fischer examines Cavell's relevance to the controversies
surrounding poststructuralist literary theory, particularly works
by Jacques Derrida, J. Hillis Miller, Paul de Man, and Stanley
Fish.
Throughout his study, Fischer focuses on skepticism, a central
concern of Cavell's multifaceted work. Cavell, following J. L.
Austin and Wittgenstein, does not refute the radical
epistemological questioning of Descartes, Hume, and others, but
rather characterizes skepticism as a significant human possibility
or temptation. As presented by Fischer, Cavell's accounts of both
external-world and other-minds skepticism share significant
affinities with deconstruction, a connection overlooked by
contemporary literary theorists.
Fischer follows Cavell's lead in examining how different genres
address the problems raised by skepticism and goes on to show how
Cavell draws on American and English romanticism in fashioning a
response to it. He concludes by analyzing Cavell's remarks about
current critical theory, focusing on Cavell's uneasiness with some
of the conclusions reached by its practitioners. Fischer shows that
Cavell's insights, grounded in powerful analyses of Descartes,
Hume, and Wittgenstein, permit a fresh view of Derrida, Miller, de
Man, and Fish. The result is not only a revealing
characterizationof deconstruction but a much-needed and insightful
introduction to Cavell's rich but difficult oeuvre.
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