Open AccessStanley Cavell, Philosopher Untamed
Author(s) -
Lindsay Waters
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
conversations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1929-6169
DOI - 10.18192/cjcs.vi7.4912
Subject(s) - art history , philosophy , art , star (game theory) , psychoanalysis , literature , psychology , physics , astrophysics
Why not use the word “star,” Stanley asked in his breakthrough book on movies, The World Viewed, why not “the more beautiful and more accurate word,” rather than actor or actress? In philosophy he was a Hepburn, a Brando, a Dean, a Bacall, stars into whose souls he gave us entryways. I always thought of him and Hilary Putnam as the “glimmer twins.” Time was on their side, for so many decades, thank the lord. And on ours, too!