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The Thought of Stanley Cavell and Cinema: Turning Anew to the Ontology of Film a Half Century after The World Viewed

David LaRocca (ed.), The Thought of Stanley Cavell and Cinema: Turning Anew to the Ontology of Film a Half Century after The World Viewed Bloomsbury Academic, New York, 2020 ISBN: 9781501349164 Au$160(hb) 336pp The two decades before his death in 2018 saw an extraordinary rise in the reputation of American “ordinary language” philosopher Stanley Cavell. Although always an established figure …

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