Understanding Cavell, understanding modernism /

Stanley Cavell has written extensively on modernist art, particularly on painting, photography, music, literature and especially cinema. However, Cavell's importance for understanding modernism is not exhausted by his interest in modernist art and literature. Equally significant, and perhaps ev...

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Other Authors: Marrati, Paola (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2026].
Series:Understanding philosophy, understanding modernism.
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Table of Contents:
  • Must we mean what we say? And the (re)birth of ordinary language philosophy / Sandra Laugier
  • Modernism in the world viewed / Hugo Clémot
  • The senses of Walden : Thoreau's exemplary act / Paul Standish
  • The claim of reason : on finding a voice of one's own in philosophy / Paola Marrati
  • Democracy as a way of life and anarchic perfectionism : rereading conditions handsome and unhandsome / Naoko Saito
  • Philosophy, literature, and the romantic response / Andrew Brandel
  • Measuring the value of human life according to a perfectionist philosopher / David LaRocca
  • Modernism : notes toward a philosophical approach / Piergiorgio Donatelli
  • Modernism and film at criticism : rethinking the "aesthetic possibilities" of the medium / Élise Domenach
  • Cavell and the modernity of film / Eli Friedlander
  • Claim / Sandra Laugier
  • Criteria / Martin Shuster
  • Skepticism / Jeroen Gerrits.