Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.
Under examination by the camera, a human body becomes for its inhabitant a field of betrayal more than a ground of communication, and the camera's fu… - Stanley Cavell
Under examination by the camera, a human body becomes for its inhabitant a field of betrayal more than a ground of communication, and the camera's fu…
- Stanley Cavell
I try to keep my voice in writing, and I think that's why I get so many complaints about how I write. - Stanley Cavell
I try to keep my voice in writing, and I think that's why I get so many complaints about how I write.
I know how to give the meaning of a word but not how to give the intention of a word. - Stanley Cavell
I know how to give the meaning of a word but not how to give the intention of a word.
Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that q… - Stanley Cavell
Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that q…
So far as photography satisfied a wish, it satisfied a wish not confined to painters, but a human wish, intensifying since the Reformation, to escape… - Stanley Cavell
So far as photography satisfied a wish, it satisfied a wish not confined to painters, but a human wish, intensifying since the Reformation, to escape…
The development of fast film allowed the subjects of our photographs to be caught unawares, beyond our or their control. But they are nevertheless ca… - Stanley Cavell
The development of fast film allowed the subjects of our photographs to be caught unawares, beyond our or their control. But they are nevertheless ca…
One impulse of photography, as immediate as its impulse to extend the visible, is to theatricalize its subjects. The photographer's command, Watch th… - Stanley Cavell
One impulse of photography, as immediate as its impulse to extend the visible, is to theatricalize its subjects. The photographer's command, Watch th…
The academic world doesn't invite you to try to walk on two feet all the time. And in philosophy especially . . . it's a very intimidating place. The… - Stanley Cavell
The academic world doesn't invite you to try to walk on two feet all the time. And in philosophy especially . . . it's a very intimidating place. The…
Philosophy... is indeed outrageous, inherently so. It seeks to disquiet the foundations of our lives and to offer us in recompense nothing better tha… - Stanley Cavell
Philosophy... is indeed outrageous, inherently so. It seeks to disquiet the foundations of our lives and to offer us in recompense nothing better tha…
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