Contending with Stanley Cavell

Stanley Cavell has been a brilliant idiosyncratic presence in American philosophy literary criticism and cultural studies for years. Even as he continues to produce new writing of a high quality - an example of which is included in this collection - his work has elicited responses from a new generation of writers in Europe and America. This collection showcases this new work while illustrating the variety of Cavell''s interests: in the ordinary language philosophy of Wittgenstein and Austin in film criticism and theory in literature psychoanaylsis and the American transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.