INTRODUCTION
Must We Say What We Learned? Parsing the Personal and the Philosophical (David LaRocca, Cornell University, USA)
I. STANDARD CONSIDERATIONS
1. Must We Mean What We Say? On the Life and Thought of Stanley Cavell (Marshall Cohen, University of Southern California, USA)
2. Cavell at Film Criticism: "An Unreadiness to Become Explicit" (Andrew Klevan, University of Oxford, UK)
3. Cavell as Educator (Mark Greif, Stanford University, USA)
4. What Cavell Made Possible for Philosophy (Susan Neiman, Einstein Forum, Germany)
5. Cavell Reading Cavell (William Rothman, University of Miami, USA)
II. FEATS OF ORDINARY LANGUAGE
6. Cavell's Redemptive Reading (Edward T. Duffy, Marquette University, USA)
7. Staging Praise / Owning Words (Charles Bernstein, University of Pennsylvania, USA)
8. Resisting the Literal: Cavellâs Conversations with Thinking (Ann Lauterbach, Bard College, USA)
9. Revisiting Ordinary Language Criticism (Kenneth Dauber, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA, and K. L. Evans, Independent Scholar)
10. Monsters and Felicities: Vernacular Transformations of the Five-Foot Shelf (Lawrence F. Rhu, University of South Carolina, USA)
III. CINEMA, MUSIC, ART, AND AESTHETICS
11. The Idea that Films Could Have a Bearing on Philosophy (Robert B. Pippin, University of Chicago, USA)
12. Words Fail Me. (Stanley Cavellâs Life out of Music) (William Day, Le Moyne College, USA)
13. Cavellâs Ear for Things (Andreas Teuber, Brandeis University, USA)
14. How to Mean It: Some Simple Lessons (Timothy Gould, Metropolitan State University of Denver, USA)
15. Stanley Cavellâs Doubling (Rex Butler, Monash University, Australia)
IV. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF EVERYDAY LIFE
16. The Importance of Being Alive (Sandra Laugier, University of Paris 1, Panth©on-Sorbonne, France)
17. Impression, Influence, Appreciation (Steven G. Affeldt, Le Moyne College, USA)
18. Taking an Interest in Interest (Richard Deming, Yale University, USA)
19. Philosophy and Autobiography (Toril Moi, Duke University, USA)
20. Autophilosophy (David LaRocca, Cornell University, USA)
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index