Palgrave Companion to Stanley Cavell’s Aesthetic Thought

Pioter Shmugliakov is a teaching fellow at the Multidisciplinary Department of Tel-Hai Academic College and the Department of Photography at the University of Haifa.Alma Itzhaky is an independent scholar and visual artist.Johnathan Soen is a research fellow at the Center of Post-Kantian Philosophy at the University of Potsdam and at the Institute of Philosophy of Tel Aviv University.

• 1 Introduction: Towards a Companionable Companion.- 2 Cavell and Other Minds on Aesthetics: A Prologue.- PART I: AESTHETICS, CONVERSATION, AND METAPHILOSOPHY.- 3 Cavell and Kant on Aesthetic Culture.- 4 Cavell and Bugbee on (Aesthetic) Experience: Receiving the World.- 5 Cavell and Nietzsche on Philosophical Style.- 6 Cavell and Arendt on Conversation.- PART II: ORDINARY LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND MORAL IMAGINATION.- 7 Cavell and Wittgenstein on Reading.- 8 Cavell and Diamond on Literary Form: Theoretical, Philosophical and Therapeutic Reading.- 9 Cavell and Asimov on Science Fiction: Imagined Sense and Sense in Imagination.- 10 Cavell and Schelling on Perfectionism, Language and Music.- 11 Cavell and Derrida on the Poetic Performative.- 12 Cavell, Austin, and Euripides on Seriousness.- PART III: FILM, CRITICISM, AND THE WORLD.- 13 Cavell and Fried on the Riddle of Modernism.- 14 Cavell and Heidegger on the World of the (Cinematic) Work of Art.- 15 Cavell and Benjamin on Film Form and Literary Romance: Elective Affinities.- 16 Cavell and Benjamin on Silent Comedy: The World of the Fortunate.- 17 Cavell and Pippin on Film Noir: Naïveté and Irony in a Modernist Genre.- 18 Cavell and Barthes on Garbo.