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Product Description: Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most significant figures in nineteenth-century American literature and culture-indeed, this collection argues, in the history of philosophy. The Other Emerson is a thorough reassessment of the philosophical underpinnings, theoretical innovations, and ethical and political implications of the prose writings of one of America's most enduring thinkers...read more
By Branka Arsic (editor), Stanley Cavell (other contributor) and Cary Wolfe (editor)
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9780816667475 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, November 5, 2010, cover price $82.50 | About this edition: Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most significant figures in nineteenth-century American literature and culture-indeed, this collection argues, in the history of philosophy.

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9780816667482 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, November 5, 2010, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most significant figures in nineteenth-century American literature and culture-indeed, this collection argues, in the history of philosophy.

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Product Description: An autobiography in the form of a philosophical diary, Little Did I Know's underlying motive is to describe the events of a life that produced the kind of writing associated with Stanley Cavell's name. Cavell recounts his journey from early childhood in Atlanta, Georgia, through musical studies at UC Berkeley and Julliard, his subsequent veering off into philosophy at UCLA, his Ph...read more
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9780804770149 | Stanford Univ Pr, July 23, 2010, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: An autobiography in the form of a philosophical diary, Little Did I Know's underlying motive is to describe the events of a life that produced the kind of writing associated with Stanley Cavell's name.

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Product Description: Philosophy and Animal Life offers a new way of thinking about animal rights, our obligation to animals, and the nature of philosophy itself. Cora Diamond begins with "The Difficulty of Reality and the Difficulty of Philosophy," in which she accuses analytical philosophy of evading, or deflecting, the responsibility of human beings toward nonhuman animals...read more
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9780231145145 | Columbia Univ Pr, June 25, 2008, cover price $24.50 | About this edition: Philosophy and Animal Life offers a new way of thinking about animal rights, our obligation to animals, and the nature of philosophy itself.

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9780231145152 | Columbia Univ Pr, December 1, 2009, cover price $18.50 | also contains Philosophy and Animal Life | About this edition: Philosophy and Animal Life offers a new way of thinking about animal rights, our obligation to animals, and the nature of philosophy itself.

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Product Description: The Harvard Review of Philosophy has long been a forum for new thoughts in the field — this collection includes some of the most important essays from that publication. Exploring the unexpected ways that philosophy impacts our world, this book considers the discipline as an essential element in our understanding of science, economics, and logic...read more
By Stanley Cavell (foreword by)
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9780812696356 | Open Court Pub Co, September 1, 2009, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: The Harvard Review of Philosophy has long been a forum for new thoughts in the field — this collection includes some of the most important essays from that publication.

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Product Description: In the name of efficiency, the practice of education has come to be dominated by neoliberal ideology andprocedures of standardization and quantification. Such attempts to make all aspects of practice transparent and subject to systematic accounting lack sensitivity to the invisible and the silent, to something in the humancondition that cannot readily be expressed in an either-or form...read more
By Stanley Cavell (foreword by) and Naoko Saito
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9780823224623 | Fordham Univ Pr, July 30, 2005, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: In the name of efficiency, the practice of education has come to be dominated by neoliberal ideology andprocedures of standardization and quantification.

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Product Description: In this powerful, compassionate work, one of anthropology's most distinguished ethnographers weaves together rich fieldwork with a compelling critical analysis in a book that will surely make a signal contribution to contemporary thinking about violence and how it affects everyday life...read more
By Stanley Cavell (foreword by) and Veena Das
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9780520247444 | 1 edition (Univ of California Pr, December 1, 2006), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: In this powerful, compassionate work, one of anthropology's most distinguished ethnographers weaves together rich fieldwork with a compelling critical analysis in a book that will surely make a signal contribution to contemporary thinking about violence and how it affects everyday life.

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9780520247451 | 1 edition (Univ of California Pr, December 1, 2006), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: In this powerful, compassionate work, one of anthropology's most distinguished ethnographers weaves together rich fieldwork with a compelling critical analysis in a book that will surely make a signal contribution to contemporary thinking about violence and how it affects everyday life.

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Product Description: Nietzsche characterized the philosopher as the man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow--a description befitting Stanley Cavell, with his longtime interest in freedom in the face of an uncertain future. This interest, particularly in the role of language in freedom of the will, is fully engaged in this volume, a collection of retrospective and forward-thinking essays on performative language and on performances in which the question of freedom is the underlying concern...read more
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9780674017047 | Belknap Pr, April 30, 2005, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Nietzsche characterized the philosopher as the man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow--a description befitting Stanley Cavell, with his longtime interest in freedom in the face of an uncertain future.

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9780674022324 | Harvard Univ Pr, October 31, 2006, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Nietzsche characterized the philosopher as the man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow--a description befitting Stanley Cavell, with his longtime interest in freedom in the face of an uncertain future.

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Product Description: In the name of efficiency, the practice of education has come to be dominated by neoliberal ideology andprocedures of standardization and quantification. Such attempts to make all aspects of practice transparent and subject to systematic accounting lack sensitivity to the invisible and the silent, to something in the humancondition that cannot readily be expressed in an either-or form...read more
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9780823224630 | Fordham Univ Pr, September 15, 2006, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In the name of efficiency, the practice of education has come to be dominated by neoliberal ideology andprocedures of standardization and quantification.

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Product Description: This book explores Cavell's writings along converging lines of thought rather than in isolated categories. The author claims that, after Cavell's celebrated reading of King Lear turned into a nightmarish meditation on Vietnam, he found a more audible voice...read more
By Stanley Cavell (foreword by) and Lawrence F. Rhu
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9780823225965 | Fordham Univ Pr, July 30, 2006, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: This book explores Cavell's writings along converging lines of thought rather than in isolated categories.

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Product Description: Since Socrates and his circle first tried to frame the Just City in words, discussion of a perfect communal life--a life of justice, reflection, and mutual respect--has had to come to terms with the distance between that idea and reality...read more
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9780674013360 | Belknap Pr, May 1, 2004, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Since Socrates and his circle first tried to frame the Just City in words, discussion of a perfect communal life--a life of justice, reflection, and mutual respect--has had to come to terms with the distance between that idea and reality.

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9780674018181 | Harvard Univ Pr, October 31, 2005, cover price $24.50 | About this edition: Since Socrates and his circle first tried to frame the Just City in words, discussion of a perfect communal life--a life of justice, reflection, and mutual respect--has had to come to terms with the distance between that idea and reality.

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Product Description: This extensive collection offers a substantially complete retrospective of Stanley Cavell's previously uncollected writings on film. Cavell is the only major philosopher in the Anglo-American tradition who has made film a central concern of his work, and his work offers inspiration and new directions to the field of film studies...read more
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9780791464311 | State Univ of New York Pr, June 30, 2005, cover price $89.50 | About this edition: This extensive collection offers a substantially complete retrospective of Stanley Cavell's previously uncollected writings on film.

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Product Description: Stanley Cavell has been a brilliant, idiosyncratic, and controversial presence in American philosophy, literary criticism, and cultural studies for years. Even as he continues to produce new writing of a high standard -- an example of which is included in this collection -- his work has elicited responses from a new generation of writers in Europe and America...read more
By Stanley Cavell (editor) and Russell B. Goodman (editor)
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9780195175684 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, February 10, 2005, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Stanley Cavell has been a brilliant, idiosyncratic, and controversial presence in American philosophy, literary criticism, and cultural studies for years.

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9788437619781, titled "En busca de lo ordinario / In Search of the Ordinary" | Catedra Ediciones, June 30, 2004, cover price $32.95

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Product Description: This book is Stanley Cavell’s definitive expression on Emerson. Over the past thirty years, Cavell has demonstrated that he is the most emphatic and provocative philosophical critic of Emerson that America has yet known. The sustained effort of that labor is drawn together here for the first time into a single volume, which also contains two previously unpublished essays and an introduction by Cavell that reflects on this book and the history of its emergence...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780804745420 | Stanford Univ Pr, November 1, 2003, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: This book is Stanley Cavell’s definitive expression on Emerson.

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Product Description: Reissued with a new preface and a new essay on Macbeth, King Lear, Othello, Coriolanius, Hamlet and The Winter's Tale, this famous collection of essays on Shakespeare's tragedies considers the plays as responses to the crisis of knowledge and the emergence of modern skepticism. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780521821896 | 2 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 7, 2003), cover price $93.00 | About this edition: Reissued with a new preface and a new essay on Macbeth, King Lear, Othello, Coriolanius, Hamlet and The Winter's Tale, this famous collection of essays on Shakespeare's tragedies considers the plays as responses to the crisis of knowledge and the emergence of modern skepticism.

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9780521529204 | Updated edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 2003), cover price $33.00 | About this edition: Reissued with a new preface and a new essay on Macbeth, King Lear, Othello, Coriolanius, Hamlet and The Winter's Tale, this famous collection of essays on Shakespeare's tragedies considers the plays as responses to the crisis of knowledge and the emergence of modern skepticism.

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9781879003392 | Edmundson Art Foundation, February 1, 2003, cover price $55.01

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Product Description: Reissued with a new preface, this famous collection of essays covers a remarkably wide range of philosophical issues, including essays on Wittgenstein, Austin, Kierkegaard, and the philosophy of language, and extending beyond philosophy into discussions of music and drama...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780521821889 | Updated edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, November 4, 2002), cover price $34.00 | About this edition: Reissued with a new preface, this famous collection of essays covers a remarkably wide range of philosophical issues, including essays on Wittgenstein, Austin, Kierkegaard, and the philosophy of language, and extending beyond philosophy into discussions of music and drama.
9780521211161 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, March 26, 1976), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: This is a remarkable, and now famous, volume of philosophical studies.

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9780521529198 | Updated edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, December 1, 2002), cover price $34.00 | About this edition: Reissued with a new preface, this famous collection of essays covers a remarkably wide range of philosophical issues, including essays on Wittgenstein, Austin, Kierkegaard, and the philosophy of language, and extending beyond philosophy into discussions of music and drama.
9780521290487 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1, 1976, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: This is a remarkable, and now famous, volume of philosophical studies.

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Product Description: Judgment, Imagination, and Politics brings together for the first time leading essays on the nature of judgment. Drawing from themes in Kant's Critique of Judgment and Hannah Arendt's discussion of judgment from Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy, these essays deal with: the role of imagination in judgment; judgment as a distinct human faculty; the nature of judgment in law and politics; and the many puzzles that arise from the 'enlarged mentality,' the capacity to consider the perspectives of others that aren't in Kant treated as essential to judgment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Hannah Arendt (contributor), Ronald Beiner (editor), Stanley Cavell (contributor) and Jennifer Nedelsky (editor)
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9780847699711 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, August 1, 2001, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: Judgment, Imagination, and Politics brings together for the first time leading essays on the nature of judgment.

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9788449306693, titled "La busqueda de la felicidad / The Quest for Happiness" | Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, February 24, 1999, cover price $40.95

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Product Description: This handsome new edition of Stanley Cavell's landmark text, first published 20 years ago, provides a new preface that discusses the reception and influence of his work, which occupies a unique niche between philosophy and literary studies.
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9780195131079, titled "The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy" | Oxford Univ Pr, July 1, 1999, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: This handsome new edition of Stanley Cavell's landmark text, first published 20 years ago, provides a new preface that discusses the reception and influence of his work, which occupies a unique niche between philosophy and literary studies.
9780195031959 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 1, 1982, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Discusses the meaning and problems of skepticism, Wittgenstein's concept of human knowledge, and the relationship between knowledge and the concept of morality

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Product Description: What is marriage? Can a relationship dedicated to equality, friendship,and mutual education flower in an atmosphere of romance? What are thepaths between loving another and knowing another? Stanley Cavellidentified a genre of classic American films that engaged thesequestions in his study of comedies of remarriage, Pursuits of Happiness...read more
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9780226098142 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 1, 1996, cover price $62.50 | About this edition: Amazon.

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9780226098166 | Univ of Chicago Pr, February 1, 1997, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: What is marriage?

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Product Description: This volume is a collection of readings from the work of Stanley Cavell, an influential 20th-century American philosopher. It provides those who are unfamiliar with Cavell's work with an overview of its strategic purpose, its central themes and its argumentative development...read more
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9780631197430 | Blackwell Pub, September 1, 1996, cover price $51.95 | About this edition: This volume is a collection of readings from the work of Stanley Cavell, an influential 20th-century American philosopher.

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Product Description: This work is an introduction to the life of philosophy in the United States, as Emerson once lived it, in all its topographical ambiguity.
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9780674669802 | Harvard Univ Pr, May 1, 1994, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: What is the pitch of philosophy?

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9780674669819 | Reissue edition (Harvard Univ Pr, February 1, 1996), cover price $25.50 | About this edition: This work is an introduction to the life of philosophy in the United States, as Emerson once lived it, in all its topographical ambiguity.

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Product Description: Stanley Cavell, one of the most important of contemporary American philosophers, has often returned to Emerson and Wittgenstein in his determination to recover vital links between American and European philosophy. In this most recent collection of his writing, Cavell provides extraordinary careful and sustained readings of Emerson's "Fate", Derrida's response to J...read more
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9780631192695 | Blackwell Pub, January 1, 1995, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: Contemporary American philosopher, Stanley Cavell, has often returned to Emerson and Wittgenstein in his determination to recover vital links between American and European philosophy.

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9780631192718 | Blackwell Pub, January 17, 1995, cover price $51.95 | About this edition: Stanley Cavell, one of the most important of contemporary American philosophers, has often returned to Emerson and Wittgenstein in his determination to recover vital links between American and European philosophy.

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Product Description: These lectures by one of the most influential and original philosophers of the twentieth century constitute a sustained argument for the philosophical basis of romanticism, particularly in its American rendering. Through his examination of such authors as Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Wordsworth, and Coleridge, Stanley Cavell shows that romanticism and American transcendentalism represent a serious philosophical response to the challenge of skepticism that underlies the writings of Wittgenstein and Austin on ordinary language...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780226098173 | Univ of Chicago Pr, February 1, 1989, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: These lectures by one of the most influential and original philosophers of the twentieth century constitute a sustained argument for the philosophical basis of romanticism, particularly in its American rendering.

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9780226098180 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, November 1, 1994), cover price $22.50 | About this edition: These lectures by one of the most influential and original philosophers of the twentieth century constitute a sustained argument for the philosophical basis of romanticism, particularly in its American rendering.

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