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Contemporary Philosophy in Focus offers introductory volumes on many of the dominant philosophical thinkers of the current age. Stanley Cavell has been one of the most creative and independent of contemporary philosophical voices. This volume is the first attempt to describe and assess the full range of Cavell's work

The American philosopher Stanley Cavell (b. 1926) is a secular Jew who by his own admission is obsessed with Christ, yet his outlook on religion in general is ambiguous. Probing the secular and the sacred in Cavell's thought, Espen Dahl explains that Cavell, while often parting ways with Christianity, cannot dismiss it either. Focusing on Cavell's work as a whole, but especially on his recent engagement with Continental philosophy, Dahl brings out important themes in Cavell's philosophy and his conversation with theology.

"Accomplished scholars and writers-some of them lifelong friends, students, and colleagues, others strangers and skeptical critics of Stanley Cavell-think and re-think the nature of their personal, impersonal (and our collective) intellectual indebtedness to Cavell's half-century of contributions to philosophy, religion, literary studies, music, and cinema"--

What could it mean to speak of philosophy as 'the education of grownups'? This book takes Cavell's enigmatic phrase as a provocation to explore the themes of education that run throughout his work - from his response to Wittgenstein, Austin and ordinary-language philosophy, to his readings of Thoreau

"Stanley Cavell and English Romanticism serves as both introduction to Cavell for Romanticists, and to the larger question of what philosophy means for the reading of literature, as well as to the importance and relevance of Romantic literature to Cavell's thought. Illustrated through close readings of Wordsworth and Shelley, and extended discussions of Emerson and Thoreau as well as Cavell, Duffy proposes a Romanticism of persisting cultural relevance and truly trans-Atlantic scope. The turn to romanticism of America's most distinguished "ordinary-language" philosopher is shown to be tied to the neo-Romantic claim that far from being merely an illustrator of the truths discovered by philosophy, poetry is its equal partner in the instituting of knowledge. This book will be vital reading for anyone interested in Romanticism, Stanley Cavell and the ever-deepening connections between literature and philosophy."--Bloomsbury Publishing

In this book, Peter Dula turns to Stanley Cavell to see how his work might illuminate contemporary theological discussions - in particular, how his understanding of companionship might usefully complicate the communitarian-liberal divide and how his diagnosis of philosophical skepticism provides resources for engaging theological skepticism

Foreword The Importance of Stanley Cavell for the Study of Film / Sandra Laugier -- Introduction The Seriousness of Film Sustained / David LaRocca -- I. The Companionship of Film and Philosophy -- 1. Love and Class in Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows / Robert B. Pippin -- 2. Lévinas, Cavell, and the Films of the Dardenne Brothers / William Rothman -- 3. The Specter of the Electronic Screen: Bruno Varela's Reception of Cavell / Byron Davies -- II. Recollecting and Remembering -- 4. The Pertinence of the Stars: Achieving Mortality in Little Did I Know and Only Angels Have Wings / Steven G. Affeldt -- 5. In Praise of Cinema: Cavell, Arnaud Desplechin, and Telling What Counts in Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse / Joseph Mai -- III. Rethinking Remarriage -- 6. Morality and Recognition: A Cavellian Reading of Elaine May's A New Leaf / Paul Schofield -- 7. Remarriage Comedy, the Next Generation: The Bold Pursuit of Happiness / K. L. Evans -- IV. The Female Voice Heard Anew -- 8. Passionate Utterances: Cavell, Film, and the Female Voice / Catherine Wheatley -- 9. Cavell, Altman, Cassavetes: The Melodrama of the Unknown Woman in A Woman Under the Influence and Nashville / Charles Warren -- V. Contending with Conditions, Human and Otherwise -- 10. Stanley Kubrick and Stanley Cavell: Cinematic Syntax, Avoidance, and Acknowledgment / David Mikics -- 11. The Use and Abuse of Documentary Confessionals: Cavell, Žižek, and the Possibility of Justice in The Unknown Known and The Act of Killing / Amir Khan -- 12. Pursuits of Happiness in the Time of War: On Borhane Alaouié's Beirut: The Encounter / Daniele Rugo -- VI. Visibility, Audibility, and Intelligibility -- 13. Chantal Akerman and Stanley Cavell: Viewing in La Captive and Reviewing in Moral Perfectionism / Kate Rennebohm -- 14. Contemplating the Sounds of Contemplative Cinema: Cavell and Kelly Reichardt / David LaRocca -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index.