Cities of Words

Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life

Stanley Cavell

    Preface

    Introduction

    1. Emerson

    2. The Philadelphia Story

    3. Locke

    4. Adam's Rib

    5. John Stuart Mill

    6. Gaslight

    7. Kant

    8. It Happened One Night

    9. Rawls

    10. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

    11. Nietzsche

    12. Now, Voyager

    13. Ibsen

    14. Stella Dallas

    15. Freud

    16. The Lady Eve

    17. Plato

    18. His Girl Friday

    19. Aristotle

    20. The Awful Truth

    21. Henry James and Max Ophuls

    22. G. B. Shaw: Pygmalion and Pygmalion

    23. Shakespeare and Rohmer: Two Tales of Winter

    Themes of Moral Perfectionism

    Bibliography

    Acknowledgments

    Index

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Stanley Cavell is Walter M. Cabot Professor, Emeritus, of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Harvard University.