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(1926-2018) Author. Stanley Cavell was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and died in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City.

Full Name

Stanley Cavell

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


1926

BIRTH

Stanley Cavell was born Stanley Louis Goldstein in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 1, 1926.

1947

OTHER

After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1947, Mr. Cavell studied at the Juilliard School of Music in Manhattan, New York.

1969

LITWORK

Must We Mean What We Say?


Collection of essays.

1971

LITWORK

The World Viewed
Viking
0670790028 / 978-0670790029
Nonfiction.

1972

LITWORK

The Senses of Walden
Viking
0670633577 / 978-0670633579
Nonfiction.

1979

LITWORK

The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy
Oxford University Press
0195025717 / 978-0195025712
Nonfiction.

1981

LITWORK

Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage
Harvard University Press
0674739051 / 978-0674739055
Nonfiction.

1984

LITWORK

Themes Out of School: Effects and Causes
North Point Press
0865471460 / 978-0865471467
Nonfiction.

2003

LITWORK

Disowning Knowledge: In Seven Plays of Shakespeare, 2nd edition
Cambridge University Press
0521821894 / 978-0521821896
Nonfiction.

2004

LITWORK

Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life
Belknap Press
0674013360 / 978-0674013360
Nonfiction.

2005

LITWORK

Philosophy the Day After Tomorrow
Harvard University Press

Collection of essays.

2010

LITWORK

Little Did I Know: Excerpts from Memory
Stanford University Press
080477014X / 978-0804770149
Autobiography.

2018

DEATH

Stanley Cavell died in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 19, 2018.

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