Television with Stanley Cavell in Mind

David LaRocca studied philosophy, film, rhetoric, and religion at Buffalo, Berkeley, Vanderbilt, and Harvard. He is the author or contributing editor of more than a dozen books, including a suite of volumes in film-philosophy: The Philosophy of Charlie Kaufman (2011), The Philosophy of War Films (2014), The Philosophy of Documentary Film: Image, Sound, Fiction, Truth (2017). More recently he edited The Thought of Stanley Cavell and Cinema: Turning Anew to the Ontology of Film a Half-Century after The World Viewed (2020), Inheriting Stanley Cavell: Memories, Dreams, Reflections (2020), and Movies with Stanley Cavell in Mind (2021). Sandra Laugier, a former student at the Ecole normale supérieure and at Harvard University, is Professor of Philosophy at Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. She has published extensively on ordinary language philosophy (Wittgenstein, Austin, Cavell), moral and political philosophy, gender studies and the ethics of care, popular film, and TV series, and is the author of over 30 books in total, including Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy (2013), and Politics of the Ordinary: Care, Ethics, and Forms of Life (2020). She is a columnist at the French Journal Libération, and is the translator of Stanley Cavell’s work in French.

• Introduction: The Fact and Fiction of Television: Stanley Cavell and the Terms of Television Philosophy DAVID LaROCCA and SANDRA LAUGIERDOI: 10.47788/KRMY5433PART I: NEW TELEVISION 1. Justifying Justified WILLIAM ROTHMANDOI: 10.47788/AGFC4945 2. ‘You Get Paid for Pain’: Kingdom and New Television MARTIN SHUSTERDOI: 10.47788/LUXS1638 3. To See and to Stop: The Problem of Abdication in Succession ELISABETH BRONFENDOI: 10.47788/ZIFG7093 4. When TV is on TV: Metatelevision and the Art of Watching TV with the Royal Family in The Crown DAVID LaROCCADOI: 10.47788/WIGS5588PART II: BIG PERFECTIONISM ON THE SMALL SCREEN 5. It’s My Party and I’ll Die Even If I Don’t Want To: Repetition, Acknowledgment, and Cavellian Perfectionism in Russian Doll MICHELLE DEVEREAUXDOI: 10.47788/XVUL5590 6. ‘Nobody’s Perfect’: Moral Imperfectionism in Ozark HENT de VRIESDOI: 10.47788/VCBJ3466 7. A Zigzag of a Hundred Tacks: Narrative Complexity in The Good Place CATHERINE WHEATLEYDOI: 10.47788/TTNJ9122 8. Im/Moral Perfectionism: On TV’s Two Worlds JEROEN GERRITSDOI: 10.47788/LPIC1465PART III: EVERYDAY EDUCATION 9. The Sublime and the American Dream in Fargo HUGO CLÉMOTDOI: 10.47788/FIVE2115 10. TV Time, Recurrence, and the Situation of the Spectator: An Approach via Stanley Cavell, Raúl Ruiz, and Ruiz’s Late Chilean Series Litoral (2008) BYRON DAVIESDOI: 10.47788/UUOB5662 11. Education about Trust in Homeland THIBAUT de SAINT MAURICEDOI: 10.47788/YQZP9599 12. Small Acts PAUL STANDISHDOI: 10.47788/UWMZ4497PART IV: POPULAR TV AND ITS GENRES 13. The Event of Television: Sitcoms, Superheroes, and WandaVision STEPHEN MULHALLDOI: 10.47788/ZDKW6571 14. Love, Remarriage, and The Americans SANDRA LAUGIERDOI: 10.47788/CWPQ2215 15. True Detective: Existential Scepticism and Television Crime Drama ROBERT SINNERBRINKDOI: 10.47788/WMOI4740Index