Stanley Cavell

27 books

The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy by Stanley Cavell

The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy

Stanley Cavell

544 pages • first pub 1979 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome: The Constitution of Emersonian Perfectionism:The Carus Lectures, 1988 by Stanley Cavell

Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome: The Constitution of Emersonian Perfectionism:The Carus Lectures, 1988

Stanley Cavell

163 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy challenging informative medium-paced
Disowning Knowledge: In Seven Plays of Shakespeare by Stanley Cavell

Disowning Knowledge: In Seven Plays of Shakespeare

Stanley Cavell

272 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy reflective medium-paced
The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre, and Other Aspects of Popular Culture by Lionel Trilling, Stanley Cavell, Robert Warshow

The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre, and Other Aspects of Popular Culture

Lionel Trilling, Stanley Cavell, Robert Warshow

302 pages • first pub 1962 (editions)

nonfiction essays challenging informative reflective slow-paced
In Quest of the Ordinary: Lines of Skepticism and Romanticism by Stanley Cavell

In Quest of the Ordinary: Lines of Skepticism and Romanticism

Stanley Cavell

208 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary by Veena Das, Stanley Cavell

Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary

Veena Das, Stanley Cavell

296 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Little Did I Know: Excerpts from Memory by Stanley Cavell

Little Did I Know: Excerpts from Memory

Stanley Cavell

584 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy reflective medium-paced
Philosophy and Animal Life by Cary Wolfe, Stanley Cavell, John Henry McDowell, Cora Diamond, Ian Hacking

Philosophy and Animal Life

Cary Wolfe, Stanley Cavell, John Henry McDowell, Cora Diamond, Ian Hacking

172 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Philosophy the Day After Tomorrow by Stanley Cavell

Philosophy the Day After Tomorrow

Stanley Cavell

302 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy challenging reflective medium-paced
A Pitch of Philosophy: Autobiographical Exercises by Stanley Cavell

A Pitch of Philosophy: Autobiographical Exercises

Stanley Cavell

196 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy challenging informative reflective medium-paced