Must We Mean What We Say?

A Book of Essays

Stanley Cavell (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

394 Seiten

1976
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-21116-1 (ISBN)

Infos

The essays span and connect topics in the philosophy of language, aesthetics, and a criticism of literature, drama and music. This is a remarkable, and now famous, volume of philosophical studies.

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This is a remarkable, and now famous, volume of philosophical studies. The essays span and connect topics in the philosophy of language, aesthetics, and a criticism of literature, drama and music. The style and the range and integration of interests are alike individual, ambitious and arresting. The book is a distinguished personal work, of permanent interest and value.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments; Foreword; 1. Must we mean what we say?; 2. The availability of Wittgenstein's later philosophy; 3. Aesthetic problems of modern philosophy; 4. Austin at criticism; 5. Ending the waiting game: a reading of Beckett's Endgame; 6. Kierkegaard's On authority and revelation; 7. Music discomposed; 8. A matter of meaning it; 9. Knowing and acknowledging; 10. The avoidance of love: a reading of King Lear; Thematic index; Index of names.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.3.1976
• Verlagsort: Cambridge
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 152 x 228 mm
• Gewicht: 711 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
• ISBN-10: 0-521-21116-6 / 0521211166
• ISBN-13: 978-0-521-21116-1 / 9780521211161
• Zustand: Neuware