The Palgrave Companion to Cavell s Aesthetic Thought is a collection dedicated to the intersections between Stanley Cavell s aesthetic thought and an array of major philosophical figures: Kant, Nietzsche, Schelling, Wittgenstein, Austin, Heidegger, Benjamin, Arendt, Derrida, Diamond, Bugbee, and others. It offers a comprehensive account of Cavell s aesthetic legacy by exploring its indebtedness and relevance to these philosophical interlocutors. The volume s premise is that Cavell s conversational mode of philosophizing is intimately connected to his original understanding of art and film and to their centrality in his work. The featured essays elucidate different aspects of this connection, as each chapter reconstructs Cavell s dialogue with another thinker on a subject chosen from the vast gamut of Cavell s work: aesthetic experience, philosophical style, perfectionism, reading, literary form, modernism, film genres, and more. The Palgrave Companion to Cavell s Aesthetic T
hought offers cutting-edge perspectives on traditional Cavellian themes while also opening unexpected avenues of doing things with Cavell. It addresses scholars and students interested in Cavell, aesthetics and the arts, dialogical thinking, and their significance for modern philosophy at large.
1 Introduction: Towards a Companionable Companion.- 2 Cavell and Other Minds on Aesthetics: A Prologue.- PART I: AESTHETICS, CONVERSATION, AND METAPHILOSOPHY.- 3 Cavell and Kant on Aesthetic Culture.- 4 Cavell and Bugbee on (Aesthetic) Experience: Receiving the World.- 5 Cavell and Nietzsche on Philosophical Style.- 6 Cavell and Arendt on Conversation.- PART II: ORDINARY LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND MORAL IMAGINATION.- 7 Cavell and Wittgenstein on Reading.- 8 Cavell and Diamond on Literary Form: Theoretical, Philosophical and Therapeutic Reading.- 9 Cavell and Asimov on Science Fiction: Imagined Sense and Sense in Imagination.- 10 Cavell and Schelling on Perfectionism, Language and Music.- 11 Cavell and Derrida on the Poetic Performative.- 12 Cavell, Austin, and Euripides on Seriousness.- PART III: FILM, CRITICISM, AND THE WORLD.- 13 Cavell and Fried on the Riddle of Modernism.- 14 Cavell and Heidegger on the World of the (Cinematic) Work of Art.- 15 Cavell and Benjamin on Film F
orm and Literary Romance: Elective Affinities.- 16 Cavell and Benjamin on Silent Comedy: The World of the Fortunate.- 17 Cavell and Pippin on Film Noir: Naïveté and Irony in a Modernist Genre.- 18 Cavell and Barthes on Garbo.
Pioter Shmugliakov is a teaching fellow at the Multidisciplinary Department of Tel-Hai Academic College (Israel) and is currently a visiting scholar at the Philosophy Department of Heidelberg University.Alma Itzhaky is a Minerva Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL) in Berlin, Germany.Johnathan Soen is a research fellow at the Center of Post-Kantian Philosophy at the University of Potsdam and at the Institute of Philosophy of Tel Aviv University.
