We usually think about language and pain as opposites, the one being about expression
and connection, the other destructive," beyond words" so to speak, and isolating. Language …

Much of what constitutes our experience of our immediate environment is quite ordinary and
familiar, in particular, where we live. While policymakers and academics are constantly …

What happens when we shift from the interpretation of cultures to the interpretation of lives
and from interpreting action to understanding action as itself a form of interpretation? I …

This paper addresses both 'student engagement'in contemporary universities, and student
'disengagement'–where the latter is often seen as a failure of performance, or absence of …

“Impressive... a gifted theologian... manages to place Cavell in conversation with continental
thought as productively as anyone before him.”—Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews The …

This book provides a philosophical assessment of the idea of personhood advanced in
popular self-help literature. It also traces, within academic philosophy and philosophical …

This paper presents and defends a reappraisal of JL Austin's infamous analogy between
saying 'I know'and 'I promise'in 'Other Minds.'The paper has four sections. In § 1, I contend …

Since the publication of JL Austin's How to Do Things with Words in 1962, cultural and
literary scholars have worked to connect his “performative” language theory to the vital, often …

Stanley Cavell's writings on external world scepticism (which he speaks of as “the
repudiation of criteria” and “an attack on the ordinary”) are profound but also widely …

… когда, подростком, я делилась с матерью соображениями в отношении будущего
замужества, она считала своим долгом уме‑рять мой интеллектуальный снобизм. в …