Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow

Stanley Cavell

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Introduction

1. Something Out of the Ordinary

2. The Interminable Shakespearean Text

3. Fred Astaire Asserts the Right to Praise

4. Henry James Returns to America and to Shakespeare

5. Philosophy the Day After Tomorrow

6. What is the Scandal of Skepticism?

7. Performative and Passionate Utterance

8. The Wittgensteinian Event

9. Thoreau Thinks of Ponds, Heidegger of Rivers

10. The World as Things

Works Cited

Acknowledgments

Index

  • Cover: Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow
  • A photo of the author

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