Reading Cavell

Sanford Shieh is associate professor of philosophy at Wesleyan University, USA. He is co-editor of Future Pasts: the Analytic Tradition in 20th Century Philosophy (OUP). Alice Crary is associate professor of philosophy at the New School University, New York. She is co-editor of The New Wittgenstein (Routledge 2000) and editor of Wittgenstein and the Moral Life (MIT).

• Notes on contributors, Acknowledgments, Introduction, 1 The Wittgensteinian event, 2 Suffering a sea change: crisis, catastrophe, and convention in the theory of speech-acts, 3 Austin and the ethics of discourse, 4 How to do things with pornography, 5 The difficulty of reality and the difficulty of philosophy, 6 Philosophy as the education of grownups: Stanley Cavell and skepticism, 7 The truth of skepticism, 8 The discovery of the other: Cavell, Fichte, and skepticism, 9 On examples, representatives, measures, standards, and the ideal, 10 Habitual remarriage: the ends of happiness in The Palm Beach Story, 11 The recovery of Greece and the discovery of America, Index