Must we mean what we say? : a book of essays

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Must we mean what we say? : a book of essays

Stanley Cavell

Cambridge University Press, 2002

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  • : hardback
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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Description

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.

Table of 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.

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  • NCID
    BA62437089
  • ISBN
    • 9780521821889
    • 0521529190
  • LCCN
    2002071642
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xlii, 365 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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