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Stanley Cavell, Literature, and Film The Idea of America

256 Pages

by Routledge

256 Pages

by Routledge

256 Pages

by Routledge

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This is the first book to offer a thorough examination of the relationship that Stanley Cavell’s celebrated philosophical work has to the ways in which the United States has been imagined and articulated in its literature. Establishing the contours of Cavell’s most significant readings of American philosophical and cultural activity, the volume explores how his philosophy and the kind of reading... Read more

1. Acknowledging Stanley Cavell: Paradox, Poiesis and Philosophy in America Olaf Hansen 2. Reading Cavell Reading David LaRocca 3. Stanley Cavell, "Aversive Thinking," and Emerson’s "Party of the Future" David M. Robinson 4. Self-Relayance: Emerson to Poe Garrett Stewart 5. The Haunting of History: Emerson, James, and the Ghosts of Human Suffering Kristin Boudreau 6. Philosophy Out of Earshot of the School: Tocqueville and the "American Philosophical Method" Oisín Eoin Keohane 7. Attachment and Detachment in Cavell and Santayana Paul Jenner 8. Agee after Cavell, Cavell after Agee Paul Anderson 9. "A Dance of Frenzy, A Dance of Praise": Fred Astaire Acknowledges America Áine Kelly 10. Cavell, Thoreau, and the Movies Robert B. Ray 11. Embodying an American Union: Cavell’s Conjugal and Conversational Ties Andrew Taylor 12. The Experience of the Movies: Cavell’s Hollywood and Robert Warshow Rachel Malkin 13. Emersonian Affinities: Reading Richard Ford through Stanley Cavell Lawrence Rhu