Philosophical Passages, Wittgenstein, Emerson, Austin, Derrida

 In this most recent collection of his writing, Cavell provides extraordinary careful and sustained readings of Emersona s "Fate", Derridaa s response to J. L. Austin in "Signature Event Context", and Wittgensteina s Philosophical Investigations .

Contents: Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Michael Payne and Richard Fleming. 1. Emersona s Constitutional Amending: Reading Emersona s "Fate". 2. What Did Derrida Want of Austin?. 3. Seminar on "What Did Derrida Want of Austin?". 4. The Self of Philosophy: An Interview with Stanley Cavell. 5. Continuing Cavell: Side Roads of "The Claim of Reason": Richard Fleming. 6. Notes and Afterthoughts on the Opening of Wittgensteina s Investigations. Stanley Cavell: A Working Bibliography, 1951--1994: Compiled by Peter S. Fosl and Michael Payne. Index.