Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 5-12, 1999

Volume 27, Number 27

Visiting philosopher to present talk

Philosopher Stanley Cavell will present a free public lecture titled "Praise as Consent: Late Henry James and Others" on Thursday, April 8, at 7:30 p.m. in Rm. 208 of the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.

Cavell, the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value Emeritus at Harvard University, is currently at Yale as the Henry Luce Visiting Scholar in the Humanities and Social Thought at the Whitney Humanities Center.

Cavell has written about a wide range of subjects. His major interests concern the intersection of the analytic tradition in philosophy (especially the work of Austin and Wittgenstein) with moments of the Continental tradition (such as Heidegger and Nietzsche); the philosophical importance of American thinkers such as Emerson and Thoreau; literature, including Shakespeare; and film, notably Hollywood comedy and melodrama of the 1930s and 1940s. Among his recent books are "A Pitch of Philosophy: Autobiographical Exercises," "Philosophical Passages: Wittgenstein, Emerson, Austin and Derrida" and "Contesting Tears: The Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman."

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