Stanley Cavell

Stanley Cavell
Stanley Cavell
	Stanley Cavell in Paris, 2015
Born	Stanley Louis Goldstein[1]; (legally changed name to Stanley Louis Cavell in 1942); September 1, 1926; Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Died	June 19, 2018 (aged 91); Boston, Massachussets, U.S.
Education	University of California, Berkeley (B.A.); UCLA (no degree); Harvard University (Ph.D.)
School	Postanalytic philosophy[2]
Main interests	Skepticism, tragedy, aesthetics, ethics, ordinary language philosophy, American transcendentalism, film theory, William Shakespeare, opera, religion
Notable ideas	Philosophy of language film analysis
	Influences Kierkegaard, Emerson, Thoreau, Wittgenstein, Austin, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Shakespeare, Roger Sessions;
	Influenced Michael Fried, Paul Guyer, Sandra Laugier, Stephen Mulhall, Hilary Putnam, Bernard Williams, Robert Gardner, David Macarthur;

Stanley Louis Cavell (/kəˈvɛl/; September 1, 1926 – June 19, 2018) was an American philosopher. He was the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He worked in the fields of ethics, aesthetics, and ordinary language philosophy.

His influential works were on Wittgenstein, Austin, Emerson, Thoreau, and Heidegger. His work is seen and known by its conversational tone and many literary references.

Cavell died in Boston, Massachusetts of heart failure on June 19, 2018 at the age of 91.[3]

References

David LaRocca, Emerson's English Traits and the Natural History of Metaphor, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013, p. 318.
Michael Adrian Peters, Education, Philosophy and Politics: The Selected Works of Michael A. Peters, Routledge, 2012, p. 210.
"Stanley Cavell, Prominent Harvard Philosopher, Dies at 91". The New York Times. June 20, 2018. Retrieved June 21, 2018.

Other websites

Harvard Philosophy Department website
Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies
A Philosopher Goes to the Movies: Conversation with Stanley Cavell Archived 2017-01-20 at the Wayback Machine
Daniel Ross, Review of Cavell, Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow
A study (in French) on Cavell's idea of perfectionism Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine
Stanley Cavell Archived 2013-07-20 at the Wayback Machine

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[1] David LaRocca, Emerson's English Traits and the Natural History of Metaphor, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013, p. 318.

[2] Michael Adrian Peters, Education, Philosophy and Politics: The Selected Works of Michael A. Peters, Routledge, 2012, p. 210.

[3] "Stanley Cavell, Prominent Harvard Philosopher, Dies at 91". The New York Times. June 20, 2018. Retrieved June 21, 2018.