Inheriting Stanley Cavell

<p>Some of the people who knew Stanley Cavell best--or know his work most intimately--are gathered in Inheriting Stanley Cavell </em>to lend critical insight into the once and future legacy of this American titan of thought. Former students colleagues long-time friends as well as distant admirers explore moments when their personal experiences of Cavell's singular philosophical and literary illuminations have as he put it risen to the level of philosophical significance.</p><p><br></p><p>Many of the memories dreams and reflections on offer in this volume carry with them a welcome register of the autobiographical expressing--much as Cavell did through his own writing--how the personal can become philosophical and thus provide a robust mode for the making of meaning and the clarifying of the human condition. Here in varied styles and through a range of dynamic content authors engage the lingering question of inheriting philosophy in whatever form it might take and what it means to think about inheritance and enact it.</p>