A Pitch of Philosophy

Autobiographical Exercises

Stanley Cavell

    Overture

    1. Philosophy and the Arrogation of Voice

    2. Counter-Philosophy and the Pawn of Voice

    The Metaphysical Voice

    Worlds of Philosophical Difference

    Pictures of Destruction

    Derrida's Austin and the Stake of Positivism

    Exclusion of the Theory of Excuses: On the Tragic

    Exclusion of the Theory of the Non-Serious

    Skepticism and the Serious

    Two Pictures of Communication: Assigning

    What (Thing) Is Transmitted? Austin Moves

    Two Pictures of Language in Relation to (the) World

    Three Pictures of My Attachment to My Words: Signing

    Opera and the Lease of Voice

    Bibliography

    Acknowledgments

    Subject Index

    Name Index

  • Cover: A Pitch of Philosophy
  • A photo of the author

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