Stanley Cavell (1926–2018) was Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Emeritus, at Harvard University. His numerous books include The Claim of Reason, Cities of Words, and Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow.

Stanley Cavell has been a major figure not only as an academic philosopher at Harvard, but also as an educator to those of us who would read modern philosophy if only it were readable. He has a seductively conversational tone, and I am an addict of his essays. A new volume, Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow, does not disappoint. Who but Cavell could begin an essay with Nietsche’s Birth of Tragedy and end it with an analysis of Fred Astaire? There are good thoughts on Shakespeare, Henry James, Wittgenstein and, of course, Heidegger. Cavell is one of Heidegger’s most intelligible interpreters.

• Introduction 1. Something Out of the Ordinary 2. The Interminable Shakespearean Text 3. Fred Astaire Asserts the Right to Praise 4. Henry James Returns to America and to Shakespeare 5. Philosophy the Day After Tomorrow 6. What is the Scandal of Skepticism? 7. Performative and Passionate Utterance 8. The Wittgensteinian Event 9. Thoreau Thinks of Ponds, Heidegger of Rivers 10. The World as Things Works Cited Acknowledgments Index

Stanley Cavell (1926–2018) was Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Emeritus, at Harvard University. His numerous books include The Claim of Reason, Cities of Words, and Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow.

Stanley Cavell has been a major figure not only as an academic philosopher at Harvard, but also as an educator to those of us who would read modern philosophy if only it were readable. He has a seductively conversational tone, and I am an addict of his essays. A new volume, Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow, does not disappoint. Who but Cavell could begin an essay with Nietsche’s Birth of Tragedy and end it with an analysis of Fred Astaire? There are good thoughts on Shakespeare, Henry James, Wittgenstein and, of course, Heidegger. Cavell is one of Heidegger’s most intelligible interpreters.

• Introduction 1. Something Out of the Ordinary 2. The Interminable Shakespearean Text 3. Fred Astaire Asserts the Right to Praise 4. Henry James Returns to America and to Shakespeare 5. Philosophy the Day After Tomorrow 6. What is the Scandal of Skepticism? 7. Performative and Passionate Utterance 8. The Wittgensteinian Event 9. Thoreau Thinks of Ponds, Heidegger of Rivers 10. The World as Things Works Cited Acknowledgments Index

Stanley Cavell (1926–2018) was Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Emeritus, at Harvard University. His numerous books include The Claim of Reason, Cities of Words, and Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow.

Stanley Cavell has been a major figure not only as an academic philosopher at Harvard, but also as an educator to those of us who would read modern philosophy if only it were readable. He has a seductively conversational tone, and I am an addict of his essays. A new volume, Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow, does not disappoint. Who but Cavell could begin an essay with Nietsche’s Birth of Tragedy and end it with an analysis of Fred Astaire? There are good thoughts on Shakespeare, Henry James, Wittgenstein and, of course, Heidegger. Cavell is one of Heidegger’s most intelligible interpreters.

• Introduction 1. Something Out of the Ordinary 2. The Interminable Shakespearean Text 3. Fred Astaire Asserts the Right to Praise 4. Henry James Returns to America and to Shakespeare 5. Philosophy the Day After Tomorrow 6. What is the Scandal of Skepticism? 7. Performative and Passionate Utterance 8. The Wittgensteinian Event 9. Thoreau Thinks of Ponds, Heidegger of Rivers 10. The World as Things Works Cited Acknowledgments Index