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Face-To-Face in Shakespearean Drama: Ethics, Performance, Philosophy by Matthew James Smith
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.96Explores the drama of proximity and co-presence in Shakespeare's playsKey FeaturesBrings together the rare pairing of philosophical ethics and performance studies in Shakespeare's playsEngages with... -
Abbas Kiarostami and Film-Philosophy Mathew Abbott 9781474432290
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.68A deflationary, anti-theoretical film-philosophy through the cinema of Abbas KiarostamiMathew Abbott presents a powerful new film-philosophy through the cinema of Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami... -
The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film, Enlarged Edition by Stanley Cavell
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £26.38Stanley Cavell looks closely at America's most popular art and our perceptions of it. His explorations of Hollywood's stars, directors, and most famous films-as well as his fresh look at Godard,... -
Contesting Tears: Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman by Stanley Cavell 9780226098166
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £21.85Stanley Cavell identified a genre of classic American films that engaged these questions in his study of comedies of remarriage, "Pursuits of Happiness". With "Contesting Tears", Cavell demonstrates... -
Stanley Cavell and Literary Studies: Consequences of Skepticism by Bernard Rhie 9781441129451
Booksplease Price: £37.42This title offers a groundbreaking and timely collection that draws out the full implications of Stanley Cavell's writings and ideas for literary studies. "Stanley Cavell and Literary Studies" is a... -
Something Speaks to Me: Where Criticism Begins by Professor Michel Chaouli 9780226830421
Booksplease Price: £21.05An account of criticism as an urgent response to what moves us. Criticism begins when we put down a book to tell someone about it. It is what we do when we face a work or event that bowls us over and... -
The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy by Stanley Cavell 9780195131079
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £38.28This reissue of an American philosophical classic includes a new preface by Cavell, in which he discusses the work's reception and influence. The work fosters a fascinating relationship between... -
Stanley Cavell and Philosophy as Translation: The Truth is Translated by Paul Standish 9781786602909
Booksplease Price: £45.30Translation exposes aspects of language that can easily be ignored, renewing the sense of the proximity and inseparability of language and thought. The ancient quarrel between philosophy and... -
Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome: The Constitution of Emersonian Perfectionism by Stanley Cavell 9780226098210
Booksplease Price: £23.87In these three lectures, Cavell situates Emerson at an intersection of three crossroads: a place where both philosophy and literature pass; where the two traditions of English and German philosophy... -
Stanley Cavell and the Arts: Philosophy and Popular Culture by Rex Butler 9781350008519
Booksplease Price: £85.65In the late 1990s, Rosalind Krauss, one of the principal theorists of post-modernism in the arts, began using the term "post-medium" in her work. It was a nod to the American "ordinary language"... -
Something Speaks to Me: Where Criticism Begins by Professor Michel Chaouli 9780226830315
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.30An account of criticism as an urgent response to what moves us. Criticism begins when we put down a book to tell someone about it. It is what we do when we face a work or event that bowls us over and... -
Hearing Things: Voice and Method in the Writing of Stanley Cavell Timothy Gould 9780226305639
Booksplease Price: £30.43What does philosophy have to do with the human voice? Has contemporary philosophy banished the "voice" from the field of legitimate investigation? This text examines these questions through the... -
On Religion and Memory by Babette Hellemans
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £63.53This volume takes up the challenge implied in Augustine's paradox of time: How does one account for the continuity of history and the certitude of memory, if time, in the guise of an indivisible... -
On Religion and Memory by Babette Hellemans 9780823251636
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.21This volume takes up the challenge implied in Augustine's paradox of time: How does one account for the continuity of history and the certitude of memory, if time, in the guise of an indivisible... -
The Deed of Reading: Literature * Writing * Language * Philosophy by Garrett Stewart 9780801454219
RRP: £116.00Booksplease Price: £92.20Garrett Stewart begins The Deed of Reading with a memory of his first hesitant confrontation, as a teenager, with poetic density. In that early verbal challenge he finds one driving force of... -
The Deed of Reading: Literature * Writing * Language * Philosophy by Garrett Stewart 9781501700484
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Garrett Stewart begins The Deed of Reading with a memory of his first hesitant confrontation, as a teenager, with poetic density. In that early verbal challenge he finds one driving force of... -
Must We Mean What We Say?: A Book of Essays by Stanley Cavell
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £83.79In this classic collection of wide-ranging and interdisciplinary essays, Stanley Cavell explores a remarkably broad range of philosophical issues from politics and ethics to the arts and philosophy... -
The Claim to Community: Essays on Stanley Cavell and Political Philosophy by Andrew Norris 9780804751292
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £90.20Stanley Cavell's unique contributions to the study of epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, film, Shakespeare, and American philosophy have all received wide acclaim. But there has been relatively little... -
The Claim to Community: Essays on Stanley Cavell and Political Philosophy by Andrew Norris 9780804751322
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Stanley Cavell's unique contributions to the study of epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, film, Shakespeare, and American philosophy have all received wide acclaim. But there has been relatively little... -
Hearing Things: Voice and Method in the Writing of Stanley Cavell by Timothy Gould 9780226305622
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.60What does philosophy have to do with the human voice? Has contemporary philosophy banished the "voice" from the field of legitimate investigation? This text examines these questions through the... -
Little Did I Know: Excerpts from Memory by Stanley Cavell 9780804770149
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £25.19An autobiography in the form of a philosophical diary, Little Did I Know's underlying motive is to describe the events of a life that produced the kind of writing associated with Stanley Cavell's... -
The Ironist and the Romantic: Reading Richard Rorty and Stanley Cavell by Aine Mahon 9781474265898
Booksplease Price: £40.38At the time of his death in 2007, Richard Rorty was widely acclaimed as one of the world's most influential contemporary thinkers. Stanley Cavell, who has been a leading intellectual figure from the... -
Stanley Cavell and Film: Scepticism and Self-Reliance at the Cinema by Catherine Wheatley 9781350191358
Booksplease Price: £34.84“Film is made for philosophy,” asserted Stanley Cavell. In addition to his work on scepticism, morality, and the intentions and meanings of ordinary language, the American philosopher wrote... -
Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life by Stanley Cavell 9780674018181
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £25.12Since Socrates and his circle first tried to frame the Just City in words, discussion of a perfect communal life--a life of justice, reflection, and mutual respect--has had to come to terms with the... -
Stanley Cavell and Education: Voice, Seriousness and Drama Dr Adrian Skilbeck 9781350504509
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £26.09This book explores the themes of seriousness and human voice in education, drawing on the work of the American philosopher Stanley Cavell. -
Kant's Critique of Taste: The Feeling of Life by Katalin Makkai
Booksplease Price: £24.15Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment is widely recognized as a founding document of modern aesthetics, but its legacy has fallen into disrepute. In this book Katalin Makkai calls for the rediscovery... -
Our Word Is Our Bond: How Legal Speech Acts by Marianne Constable 9780804774932
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14Words can be misspoken, misheard, misunderstood, or misappropriated; they can be inappropriate, inaccurate, dangerous, or wrong. When speech goes wrong, law often steps in as itself a speech act or... -
Our Word Is Our Bond: How Legal Speech Acts by Marianne Constable
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Words can be misspoken, misheard, misunderstood, or misappropriated; they can be inappropriate, inaccurate, dangerous, or wrong. When speech goes wrong, law often steps in as itself a speech act or... -
Philosophical Passages: Wittgenstein, Emerson, Austin, Derrida Stanley Cavell (Harvard University) 9780631192718
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £42.21In this most recent collection of his writing, Cavell provides extraordinary careful and sustained readings of Emerson's "Fate", Derrida's response to J. L. Austin in "Signature Event Context", and... -
Must We Mean What We Say?: A Book of Essays by Stanley Cavell 9781107534230
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £19.90In this classic collection of wide-ranging and interdisciplinary essays, Stanley Cavell explores a remarkably broad range of philosophical issues from politics and ethics to the arts and philosophy... -
Holiday in His Eye, The: Stanley Cavell's Vision of Film and Philosophy by William Rothman 9781438486055
RRP: £72.27Booksplease Price: £69.61Presents an original, insightful, and compelling vision of the trajectory of Cavell's oeuvre, one that takes his kinship with Emerson as inextricably bound up with his ever-deepening thinking about... -
The Holiday in His Eye: Stanley Cavell's Vision of Film and Philosophy by William Rothman 9781438486062
Booksplease Price: £27.36Presents an original, insightful, and compelling vision of the trajectory of Cavell's oeuvre, one that takes his kinship with Emerson as inextricably bound up with his ever-deepening thinking about... -
Haunting the World: Essays on Film After Perkins and Cavell by Dominic Lash 9798855803105
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £89.95Argues that the experience of the ordinary film viewer and the investigations of the film scholar or film philosopher are not necessarily so far apart.In Haunting the World, Dominic Lash tries to... -
Stanley Cavell's Democratic Perfectionism: Community, Individuality, and Post-Truth Politics by Jonathan Havercroft 9781009322584
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £80.83Post-truth politics is both a result of a democratic culture in which each person is encouraged to voice their opinion, and a threat to the continuation of democracy as partisans seek to deny... -
This New Yet Unapproachable America: Lectures After Emerson After Wittgenstein by Stanley Cavell 9780226037387
Booksplease Price: £20.12Stanley Cavell is a titan of the academic world; his work in aesthetics and philosophy has shaped both fields in the United States over the past forty years. In this brief yet enlightening collection... -
Understanding Cavell, Understanding Modernism Professor Paola Marrati 9781501313639
Booksplease Price: £96.29Stanley Cavell, undoubtedly one of the most singular and influential voices in contemporary philosophy, has written extensively on modernist art - particularly on painting, photography, music, and... -
Stanley Cavell's Democratic Perfectionism: Community, Individuality, and Post-Truth Politics by Jonathan Havercroft 9781009322577
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.57Post-truth politics is both a result of a democratic culture in which each person is encouraged to voice their opinion, and a threat to the continuation of democracy as partisans seek to deny... -
The Reality of Film: Theories of Filmic Reality by Richard Rushton 9780719091377
Booksplease Price: £23.54By formulating a notion of 'filmic reality', The reality of film offers new ways of understanding our relationship with cinema. It argues that cinema does not merely refer to, reproduce or represent... -
Stanley Cavell's American Dream: Shakespeare, Philosophy, and Hollywood Movies by Lawrence F. Rhu 9780823225965
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £54.22This book explores Cavell's writings along converging lines of thought rather than in isolated categories. The author claims that, after Cavell's celebrated reading of King Lear turned into a... -
Becoming Who We Are: Politics and Practical Philosophy in the Work of Stanley Cavell by Andrew Norris 9780190673949
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £85.34While much literature exists on the work of Stanley Cavell, this is the first monograph on his contribution to politics and practical philosophy. As Andrew Norris demonstrates, though skepticism is...