Open AccessCavell’s Importance for Philosophical Aesthetics
Author(s) -
Nicholas F. Stang
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
conversations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1929-6169
DOI - 10.18192/cjcs.vi7.4915
Subject(s) - aesthetics , limit (mathematics) , philosophy , work (physics) , reflexive pronoun , literature , art , epistemology , physics , mathematical analysis , mathematics , thermodynamics
Stanley Cavell was a prolific writer—the author of seventeen books and countless essays—and a famously stimulating teacher, but it would be impossible to convey in a short piece like this what made his writing and teaching inimitable. Instead, I will limit myself to trying to explain a bit of what I think is so important about Cavell’s work in aesthetics.