Richard Eldridge

Stanley Cavell and Literary Studies: Consequences of Skepticism Richard Eldridge

Brief Description: "A groundbreaking and timely collection that draws out the full implications of Stanley Cavell's writings and ideas for literary studies"--Table of Contents: Notes on ContributorsAbbreviations1. Introduction: Cavell, Literary Studies, and the Human Subject: Consequences of Skepticism Richard Eldridge and Bernard RhieI. Principles2. The Adventure of Reading: Literature and Philosophy, Cavell and Beauvoir Toril Moi3. "Is 'Us' Me?" Cultural Studies and the Universality of Aesthetic Judgments R. M. Berry4. Cavell and Kant: The Work of Criticism and the Work of Art Anthony J. Cascardi5. Cavell and Wittgenstein on Morality: The Limits of Acknowledgment Charles Altieri6. The Word Viewed: Skepticism Degree Zero Garrett Stewart7. A Storied World: On Meeting and Being Met Naomi Scheman8. Skepticism and the Idea of an Other: Reflections on Cavell and Postcolonialism Simona Bertacco and John GibsonII. Practices9. William Shakespeare and Stanley Cavell: Acknowledging, Confessing, and Tragedy Sarah Beckwith10. Competing for the Soul: Cavell on Shakespeare Lawrence F. Rhu11. "Communicating with Objects": Romanticism, Skepticism, and "The Specter of Animism" in Cavell and Wordsworth Joshua Wilner12. Emerson Discomposed: Skepticism, Naturalism, and the Search for Criteria in "Experience" Paul Grimstad13. Beside Ourselves: Near, Neighboring and Next-to in Cavell's The Senses of Walden and William Carlos Williams's "Fine Work with Pitch and Copper" Elisa New14. For all You Know Andrew H. Miller15. Empiricism, Exhaustion, and Meaning What We Say: Cavell and Contemporary Fiction Robert ChodatSelect BibliographyIndex Review Quotes: "A serious encounter between literary theory and ordinary language philosophy is long overdue. This stimulating collection of essays is an indispensable resource for literary critics curious about Cavell and anyone eager to strengthen and deepen the relations between philosophy and literature." Rita Felski, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English, University of Virginia, USA, and Editor, New Literary HistoryReview Quotes: "In making good on its important effort to encourage and enact a rapprochement between Cavell and literary criticism, Stanley Cavell and Literary Studies is splendid testimony to one of this thinker's extraordinary strengths: his gift for inspiring brilliant minds to engage him in arguments about matters that are of compelling concern to readers across the humanities. This is a scintillating collection of passionately argued essays." Ross Posnock, Anna Garbedian Professor of the Humanities, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, USAReview Quotes: "As Cavell's work restores emotional drama to ordinary language philosophy by attending to the literary, so does this splendid collection reenergize literary studies by bringing it into conversation with Cavell. Genres as diverse as Shakespearean tragedy, American Romanticism, and contemporary fiction reveal their commonalities here as confrontations with, and attempts to repair, the skeptical rupture between self and otherness. Through these searching essays, we are led to recognize anew the way writing functions both as withdrawal from the world and as an affirmation of the potentialities of our common language." Jennifer Fleissner, Associate Professor of English, Indiana University Bloomington, USAReview Quotes: A serious encounter between literary theory and ordinary language philosophy is long overdue. This stimulating collection of essays is an indispensable resource for literary critics curious about Cavell and anyone eager to strengthen and deepen the relations between philosophy and literature. Rita Felski, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English, University of Virginia, USA, and Editor, New Literary HistoryBiographical Note: Richard Eldridge is the Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell Professor of Philosophy at Swarthmore College, PA, USA. He is the author and editor of numerous books in philosophy and literature, including, as editor, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature (OUP, 2009) and Stanley Cavell (CUP, 2003, 2008), and as author, Literature, Life, and Modernity (Columbia University Press, 2008), An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art (CUP, 2004), On Moral Personhood: Philosophy, Literature, Criticism, and Self-Understanding (University of Chicago Press,1989), and Leading a Human Life: Wittgenstein, Intentionality, and Romanticism (University of Chicago Press, 1997). Bernard Rhie is Associate Professor of English at Williams College, USA. Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [256]-261) and index. Publisher Marketing: > Review Citations:

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Contributor Bio:  Eldridge, Richard Richard Eldridge is Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell Professor of Philosophy at Swarthmore College. He is the author of five books, including most recently Literature, Life, and Modernity (2008), and the editor of four volumes, including The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature (2009) and (with Bernard Rhie) Stanley Cavell and Literary Studies: Consequences of Skepticism (2011).