PHILOSOPHY - THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW

One of our most imaginative philosophers, Cavell can always be counted upon to provoke his readers to join him as he soars to dizzying new philosophical heights. With his characteristic aplomb, he ranges over the thoughts of his favorite philosophers, from Nietzsche and Wittgenstein to Heidegger and J. L. Austin, weaving them seamlessly into colorful new patterns with the performative gestures of figures as diverse as Fred Astaire, Shakespeare, Henry James, Jane Austen, George Eliot, and his other favorites, Emerson and Thoreau. Cavell examines themes ranging from the role of the ordinary in philosophy and the intellectual isolation of contemporary American philosophy to the nature and place of skepticism in literature and philosophy...Very few philosopher's demonstrate Cavell's knack for connecting literary and cinematic texts with philosophical writings.