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This volume is essential collection of readers from the work of Stanley Cavell, one of the most influential American philosophers of the twentieth century. It provides those who are unfamiliar with Cavell's work with an overview of its strategic purpose, its central theme, and its argumentative development.
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Prologue: The Avoidance of Love (The Abdication Scene) | 22 | |
| 1 | The Normal and the Natural | 31 |
| 2 | Knowing and Acknowledging | 46 |
| 3 | "The Frog and the Craftsman" | 72 |
| 4 | The Avoidance of Love (External-World Skepticism) | 89 |
| 5 | Ending the Waiting Game | 94 |
| 6 | Music Discomposed | 113 |
| 7 | Kierkegaard's On Authority and Revelation | 127 |
| 8 | The Avoidance of Love (Theater) | 143 |
| 9 | "Photograph, Screen, and Star" | 156 |
| 10 | The Same and Different: The Awful Truth | 167 |
| 11 | Macbeth Appalled | 197 |
| 12 | Psychoanalysis and Cinema: The Melodrama of the Unknown Woman | 221 |
| 13 | The Ordinary as the Uneventful | 253 |
| 14 | Words and Sentences | 260 |
| 15 | Being Odd, Getting Even | 295 |
| 16 | Declining Decline | 321 |
| 17 | Moral Perfectionism | 353 |
| Epilogue: The Investigations' Everyday Aesthetics of Itself | 369 | |
| Stanley Cavell: A Bibliography 1951-1995 | 390 | |
| Index of Themes and Concepts | 415 | |
| Index of Names and Titles | 418 |
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