The Cavell Reader

by Stephen Mulhall

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A personal glimpse inside the mind of a leading philosopher The Cavell Reader is an introduction to one of the 20th century's most influential American philosophers. Stanley Cavell was well-known for the broad scope of his writing, which is a major theme of this book; topics include aesthetics, psychoanalysis, film theory, literary criticism, religion, Austin, Emerson, Wittgenstein, and more. Presented in a sequence that illustrates Cavell's evolution of thought through key periods and show more phases, these pieces provide an overview of the man behind the words, and serve as an introduction to his more famous philosophical work. show less

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Stephen Mulhall is a Professor of Philosophy, and a Tutorial Fellow of New College, Oxford, UK. He is the author of The Routledge Guidebook to Heidegger's Being and Time (2005, 2013), The Conversation of Humanity (2007), and The Self and its Shadows (2013).

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Nonfiction, Philosophy, Literature Studies and Criticism
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191Philosophy & psychologyModern western philosophyPhilosophy of United States and Canada
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B945 .C273 .C382Philosophy, Psychology and ReligionPhilosophy (General)By periodModernBy region or country
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