Must We Mean What We Say?

Reissued with an additional preface to sit alongside the volume on Stanley Cavell in Contemporary Philosophy in Focus this famous collection of essays covers a remarkably wide range of philosophical issues (there are essays on Wittgenstein, Austin, Kierkegaard, and the philosophy of language) and extends beyond philosophy into discussions of music and drama.

ISBN 0521529190   Pages 408 ISBN13 9780521529198 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Cambridge University Press   Weight (grammes) 600 Imprint Cambridge University Press   Published in Cambridge Format Paperback   Previous ISBN 9780521290487 Publication date 04 Nov 2002   Height (mm) 228 Library of Congress 2002071642   Width (mm) 152 DEWEY 191   Spine width (mm) 23 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

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		Acknowledgments
		Preface to Updated Edition of Must We Mean What We Say?
		Foreword: An Audience for Philosophy
I		Must We Mean What We Say?		1
II		The Availability of Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy		44
III		Aesthetic Problems of Modern Philosophy		73
IV		Austin at Criticism		97
V		Ending the Waiting Game: A Reading of Beckett's Endgame		115
VI		Kierkegaard's On Authority and Revelation		163
VII		Music Discomposed		180
VIII		A Matter of Meaning It		213
IX		Knowing and Acknowledging		238
X		The Avoidance of Love: A Reading of King Lear		267
		Thematic Index		357
		Index of Names		363

"This book changed philosophy. When it was originally published it was both exhilirating and astonishing - for its daring disregard of disciplinary boundaries...No reader of Cavell should be surprised to observe that, now as then, new forms of reductionism, scientism, and sheer flight prove appealing to those for whom a complex human understanding is more than their hearts can bear." Martha Nussbaum, author of Upheavals of Thought "This book is still the best introduction to the wide-ranging thoughts and the powerful imagination of one of America's most distinguished men of letters. In it, Cavell weaves together Wittgenstein's reactions fo philosophical skepticism with Shakespeare's descriptions of human needs, and J.L. Austin's appeals to 'the ordinary' with reflections on how art lets us see familiar objects anew. No one since William James has been so successful at re-humanizing philosophy - at rescuing that academic discipline from hyperprofessional self-absorption." Richard Rorty, author of Contingency, Irony and Solidarity "This book is still the best introduction to the wide-ranging thoughts and the powerful imagination of one of America's most distinguished men of letters. In it, Cavell weaves together Wittgenstein's reactions fo philosophical skepticism with Shakespeare's descriptions of human needs, and J.L. Austin's appeals to 'the ordinary' with reflections on how art lets us see familiar objects anew. No one since William James has been so successful at re-humanizing philosophy - at rescuing that academic discipline from hyperprofessional self-absorption." Richard Rorty, author of Contingency, Irony and Solidarity

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