Here and There: Sites of Philosophy

Stanley Cavell was one of the most distinguished and wide-ranging philosophers of his time. This posthumous volume assembles an array of writings that Cavell left behind, synthesizing into a cohesive intellectual vision unpublished works on modernity, music, skepticism, psychoanalysis, anthropology, tragedy, and the human voice.

Table of Contents:
Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Editors’ Introduction Prologue: A Site for Philosophy? Part I. Departures 1. Time after Time 2. The World as Things: Collecting Thoughts on Collecting 3. The Division of Talent 4. To Place Wittgenstein 5. Notes after Austin Part II. Assignments 6. Silences Noises Voices 7. Benjamin and Wittgenstein: Signals and Affinities 8. Remains to Be Seen: Initial Responses to The Arcades Project 9. Finding Words: Adam Phillips’s Ordinary Language Psychoanalysis 10. Welcoming Jean Laplanche 11. On a Psychoanalytical Response to Faulkner’s Form 12. Notes Mostly about Empathy 13. Comments on Veena Das, “Language and Body” 14. Foreword to Veena Das, Life and Words 15. Foreword to Northrop Frye, A Natural Perspective 16. In the Meantime 17. Who Disappoints Whom? Allan Bloom at Harvard 18. Preface to the Italian Edition of The Claim of Reason 19. Reflections on Wallace Stevens at Mount Holyoke 20. Foreword to Qu’est-ce que la philosophie américaine? Part III. Music 21. An Understanding with Music 22. Kivy on Idomeneo 23. Philosophy and the Unheard 24. Impressions of Revolution 25. A Scale of Eternity Epilogue: Bon Voyage Appendix: Draft Preface to Here and There Notes Editors’ Acknowledgments Index

Review :
The writings gathered here are sparkling examples of Stanley Cavell's claim that a philosophical puzzle can arise anywhere in the weave of life. Originally composed for different occasions, collectively they now seem like a letter from beyond, addressing each reader as if Cavell were speaking directly to them. -- Veena Das, author of Life and Words In this collection's essays on music, we find Cavell listening closely, hearing the ways that music works with philosophy to help us understand the world. Quoting Wittgenstein, he also aptly evokes the spirit of Here and There itself: 'Who can understand my philosophical work who does not know what music has meant in my life?' -- John Harbison, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and Institute Professor of Music, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Stanley Cavell was the most searingly brilliant and original philosopher of his generation. Again and again, these occasional essays, reviews, and lectures remind us why: sentences that take one's breath away with their ethical urgency and existential precision, their baroque energy and lacerating honesty. Gratitude has to be one's first response to the appearance of this collection. -- J. M. Bernstein, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, The New School for Social Research What comes across most powerfully...is Cavell's attentive listening, throughout his long and distinguished career, for what one might call the hum of humanity. -- Christopher Benfey New York Review of Books Filled with situated insights into the academic debates of the end of the last century and the beginning of our own...Readers will find it worthwhile to tune in. Nowhere else will one encounter the sounds one encounters in Stanley Cavell's mixtapes. -- Michael S. Roth Los Angeles Review of Books