Must we mean what we say? : a book of essays / Stanley Cavell.

By: Cavell, Stanley, 1926-2018
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, England ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1976Description: xxix, 365 p. ; 25 cmISBN: 0521211166; 0521290481 (pbk.)Subject(s): Philosophy, ModernDDC classification: 190/.8 LOC classification: B945 | .C271 1976Online resources: Publisher description | Table of contents
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.

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