Stanley Cavell on Aesthetic Understanding

1. Introduction; Garry L. Hagberg.- Part I: Understanding Persons Through Film.- 2. I Want to Know More About You: On Knowing and Acknowledging in Chinatown; Francey Russell.- 3. Other Minds and Unknown Women: The Case of Gaslight; Jay R.Elliott.-4. The Melodrama of the Unknown Man; Peter Dula.- Part II: Shakespeare, Opera, and Philosophical Interpretation.-5. Cordelia's Moral Incapacity in King Lear David Anthony Holiday.- 6. Disowning Certainty: Tragic and Comic Skepticism in Cavell, Montaigne, and Shakespeare; Stan Benfell.-7. Must We Mean What We Sing?: Cosi fan tutte and the Lease of Voice; Ian Ground.- Part III: Aesthetic Understanding and Moral Life.-8. What Matters: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Importance; Sandra Laugier.-9. Achilles' Tears: Cavell, the Iliad, and Possibilities for the Human; David LaRocca.-10. Wittgenstein "in the midst of" Life, Death, Sanity, Madness - and Mathematics: Cavellian Themes; Richard McDonough.- Part IV: Reading Fiction and Literary Understanding.- 11. Fraudulence, Knowledge, and Post-Imperial Geographies in John Le Carré's Fiction: A Cavellian Postcolonial Reading; Alan Johnson.- 12. Must We Do What We Say? The Plight of Marriage and Conversation in George Meredith's The Egoist; Erin Greer.- 13. Within the Words of Henry James: Cavell as Austinian Reader; Garry L. Hagberg.- Index