Must We Mean What We Say? A Book of Essays.

CAVELL (Stanley).

Must We Mean What We Say? A Book of Essays.

INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR

First edition, first printing. 8vo. xxix, [3], 365, [1] pp. Original yellow cloth, spine lettered in blue, dust jacket (contents clean and unmarked; only minor shelf wear to extremities of jacket, else a near fine copy). New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1969.

£750.00

CAVELL (Stanley).

Must We Mean What We Say? A Book of Essays.

Inscribed by the author ‘For Ida and Sydney from Stanley’ in blue ink to the front free endpaper.

The first book by the American philosopher Stanley Cavell, a collection of essays on ordinary language philosophy in which ‘he addresses aesthetic issues in a more overt and exacting way than he does in any of his other publications. In fact, he argues for a more important and central place for aesthetics within the practice of philosophy. Cavell addresses a range of aesthetic topics: he analyzes the relationship between aesthetics and criticism, probes aesthetic questions regarding artistic mediums and genres, and explicates issues surrounding notions of intentions, significance, and pleasure. The book also includes some examples of his dramatic criticism’ (Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers).

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