Stanley Cavell
Stanley Cavell | |
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Cavell in 2016 | |
| Born | Stanley Louis Goldstein September 1, 1926 Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
| Died | June 19, 2018 (aged 91) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Education | |
| Education | University of California, Berkeley (BA) University of California, Los Angeles Harvard University (PhD) |
| Philosophical work | |
| School | Postanalytic philosophy |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
| Doctoral students | |
| Main interests | Skepticism, tragedy, aesthetics, ethics, ordinary language philosophy, American transcendentalism, film theory, William Shakespeare, opera, religion |
| Notable ideas | Linguistic film theory, moral perfectionism |
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 at Harvard University. He worked in the fields of ethics, aesthetics, and ordinary language philosophy. As an interpreter, he produced influential works on Wittgenstein, Austin, Emerson, Thoreau, and Heidegger. His work is characterized by its conversational tone and frequent literary references.