Must we mean what we say? : a book of essays /
Stanley Cavell.
- 2nd ed.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- xl, 331 p. ; 25 cm.
- Cambridge philosophy classics .
Includes index.
1. Must we mean what we say?; 2. The availability of Wittgenstein's later philosophy; 3. Aesthetic problems of modern philosophy; 4. Austin at criticism; 5. Ending the waiting game: a reading of Beckett's Endgame; 6. Kierkegaard's On Authority and Revelation; 7. Music discomposed; 8. A matter of meaning it; 9. Knowing and acknowledging; 10. The avoidance of love: a reading of King Lear
In this seminal collection of diverse and interdisciplinary essays, Stanley Cavell delves into a wide array of philosophical topics, spanning politics, ethics, the arts, and philosophy itself. The essays address a range of subjects, including the contrasting approaches of 'analytic' and 'Continental' philosophy, modernism, Wittgenstein, abstract expressionism and Schoenberg, Shakespeare's exploration of human needs, the challenges of authorship, Kierkegaard, and post-Enlightenment religion.