16 Facts About Stanley Cavell

Stanley Louis Cavell was an American philosopher.

Stanley Cavell was the Walter M Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value at Harvard University.

Stanley Cavell worked in the fields of ethics, aesthetics, and ordinary language philosophy.

Stanley Cavell's work is characterized by its conversational tone and frequent literary references.

Stanley Cavell entered the University of California, Berkeley, where, along with his lifelong friend Bob Thompson, he majored in music, studying with, among others, Roger Sessions and Ernest Bloch.

Stanley Cavell entered graduate school in philosophy at UCLA, and then transferred to Harvard University.

Stanley Cavell's daughter by his first wife, Rachel Lee Stanley Cavell, was born in 1957.

In 1979, along with the documentary filmmaker Robert H Gardner, Cavell helped found the Harvard Film Archive, to preserve and present the history of film.

Stanley Cavell remained on the Harvard faculty until retiring in 1997.

Stanley Cavell held the Spinoza Chair of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam in 1998.

Stanley Cavell died in Boston, Massachusetts of heart failure on June 19,2018, at the age of 91.

Stanley Cavell includes film and literary study in philosophical inquiry.

Stanley Cavell's work was for a time frequently compared to that of Jacques Derrida, whom he met in 1970.

Stanley Cavell is perhaps best known for The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy, which forms the centerpiece of his work and has its origins in his doctoral dissertation.

In Pursuits of Happiness, Stanley Cavell describes his experience of seven prominent Hollywood comedies: The Lady Eve, It Happened One Night, Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story, His Girl Friday, Adam's Rib, and The Awful Truth.

Stanley Cavell's final book, Little Did I Know: Excerpts from Memory, is an autobiography written in the form of a diary.