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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
45
Citations
12880
World Ranking
3777
National Ranking
1804

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1992 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation

Overview

Stanley Cavell was affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their academic work focused primarily on the Arts and Humanities with a total of eight publications. Subfields of study included Literature and Literary Theory with five publications, Philosophy with three, and Sociology and Political Science with one.

Their research covered multiple main topics within their fields, including:

  • Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
  • Short Stories in Global Literature
  • Canadian Identity and History
  • Samuel Beckett and Modernism
  • Philosophical and Theoretical Analysis
  • French Literature and Criticism
  • Historical and Literary Analyses

Stanley Cavell's recent papers included two works titled "Index," published in 2021 and 2022. The 2021 paper was published by University of Toronto Press eBooks, and the 2022 paper by Manchester University Press eBooks.

  • Index, 2022, Manchester University Press eBooks
  • Index, 2021, University of Toronto Press eBooks

The scientist frequently collaborated with other scholars, including Élise Domenach, with whom they co-authored three works, as well as T. Kühn, Charles Taylor, Richard Rorty, and Stan¬ Ley Cavell, each with one co-authored publication.

Stanley Cavell also contributed to several book publications. They published two editions of Here and There in 2022 under Harvard University Press, which received four and three citations respectively. Additionally, they authored Little Did I Know in 2020, published by Stanford University Press eBooks, which accumulated 81 citations.

  • Here and There (2022), Harvard University Press
  • Here and There (2022), Harvard University Press
  • Little Did I Know (2020), Stanford University Press eBooks

Their works appeared primarily in the following publication venues:

  • Manchester University Press eBooks
  • University of Toronto Press eBooks

Stanley Cavell received recognition as a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation in 1992.

Best Publications

  • The claim of reason : Wittgenstein, skepticism, morality, and tragedy

    Stanley Cavell

  • Must we mean what we say

    Stanley Cavell

  • The claim of reason

    Stanley Cavell

  • The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film

    Stanley Cavell

  • The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film, Enlarged Edition

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  • Must We Mean What We Say?: Frontmatter

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  • Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage

    Stanley Cavell

  • Conditions handsome and unhandsome : the constitution of Emersonian perfectionism

    Stanley Cavell

  • In Quest of the Ordinary: Lines of Skepticism and Romanticism

    Stanley Cavell

  • Must We Mean What We Say?: A Book of Essays

    Stanley Cavell

  • Disowning knowledge in seven plays of Shakespeare

    Stanley Cavell

  • Philosophical Passages: Wittgenstein, Emerson, Austin, Derrida

    Stanley Cavell

  • This New Yet Unapproachable America: Lectures After Emerson after Wittgenstein

    Stanley Cavell

  • Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life

    Stanley Cavell

  • Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow

    Stanley Cavell

  • The senses of Walden

    Stanley Cavell

  • A pitch of philosophy : autobiographical exercises

    Stanley Cavell

  • The Scandal of the Speaking Body: Don Juan with J. L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages

    Shoshana Felman;Catherine Porter;Stanley Cavell;Judith P. Butler

  • The world viewed

    Stanley Cavell

  • Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage

    Noel Carroll;Stanley Cavell

  • The availability of Wittgenstein’s later philosophy

    Stanley Cavell

  • Must We Mean What We Say? A Book of Essays.The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film.The Senses of Walden

    Mary Mothersill;Stanley Cavell

  • Must We Mean What We Say?: A Book of Essays

    Martin Warner;Stanley Cavell

  • In Quest of the Ordinary: Lines of Skepticism and Romanticism.@@@This New Yet Unapproachable America: Lectures after Emerson after Wittgenstein.

    Charles Dove;Stanley Cavell

  • The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy.

    Newton Garver;Stanley Cavell

Frequent Co-Authors

Judith Butler
Judith Butler University of California, Berkeley
Peter J. Winch
Peter J. Winch Johns Hopkins University
Noël Carroll
Noël Carroll City University of New York
Ian Hacking
Ian Hacking University of Toronto
Peter M. S. Hacker
Peter M. S. Hacker University of Oxford

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