Download or read book Stanley Cavell and Literary Studies written by Richard Eldridge and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguably no other living philosopher has done as much as Stanley Cavell to show the common cause shared by literature and philosophy. Stanley Cavell and Literary Studies is not only timely but, indeed, long past due. As the discipline of literary studies struggles to move beyond the suspicious skepticisms and anti-humanisms that have dominated the field, but without lapsing into sentimentality and naïveté, Cavell's writings and ideas will only become more pertinent.