Second of today’s uploads, read Katrina Forrester’s review of Cavell’s (second) autobiography, Little Did I know: Excerpts from Memory (Stanford University Press).
“For Cavell, questions about philosophy are central to the study of philosophy. “What can I know?” must be intimately connected to “why should I care about what I can know?” This is one of the many reasons why his work has always stood in such stark opposition to that of his colleagues in the Anglo-American philosophical academy. Philosophy, in his terms, is therapeutic. It is bound up (or interchangeable) with literature, psychoanalysis and the care of the self.”
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[...] Katrina Forrester’s review of “Little Did I know: Excerpts from Memory”, the second autobiography by Stanley Cavell, the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value (Emeritus) at Harvard University, a former President of The American Philosophical Association, and a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, has been published (August 7th, 2011) in Cambridge Literary Review. [...]