The first posthumous collection from the writings of Stanley
Cavell, shedding new light on the distinctive vision and
intellectual trajectory of an influential American philosopher. For
Stanley Cavell, philosophy was a matter of responding to the voices
of others. Throughout his career, he articulated the belief that
words spring to life in concrete circumstances of speech: the
significance and power of language depend on the occasions that
elicit it. When Cavell died in 2018, he left behind some of his own
most powerful language-a plan for a book collecting numerous
unpublished essays and lectures, as well as papers printed in niche
journals. Here and There presents this manuscript, with
thematically relevant additions, for the first time. These
writings, composed between the 1980s and the 2000s, reflect
Cavell's expansive interests and distinctive philosophical method.
The collection traverses all the major themes of his immense body
of work: modernity, psychoanalysis, the human voice, moral
perfectionism, tragedy, skepticism. Cavell's rich and cohesive
philosophical vision unites his wide-ranging engagement with poets,
critics, psychoanalysts, social scientists, and fellow
philosophers. In Here and There, readers will find dialogues with
Shakespeare, Thoreau, Wittgenstein, Freud, Heidegger, Walter
Benjamin, Wallace Stevens, Veena Das, and Peter Kivy, among others.
One of the collection's most striking features is an ensemble of
five pieces on music, constituting Cavell's first discussion of the
subject since the mid-1960s. Edited by philosophers who have been
invested in Cavell's work for decades, Here and There not only
gathers the strands of a writing life but also maps its author's
intellectual journeys. In these works, Cavell models what it looks
like to examine seriously one's own passions and to forge new
communities through unexpected conversations.
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