Television with Stanley Cavell in Mind

DAVID LAROCCA, SANDRA LAUGIER

The first philosophy book to take TV series seriously as philosophical works.

A crucial guide to the twenty-first century’s most dominant public artform—television—through the philosophical ideas of Stanley Cavell: one of America’s greatest thinkers on film and media.

A carefully selected line-up of the best critics working on film, television, and media articulate just how important Cavell’s work is for thinking about TV series.

In a dozen chapters, a number of acknowledged critics and philosophers articulate how Cavell’s remarks on the moral perfectionism of cinema apply even more to the twenty-first century television series.

PRAISE FOR TELEVISION WITH STANLEY CAVELL IN MIND

This landmark collection of essays is an invaluable exploration of Stanley Cavell’s contributions to the study of modern visual media, and a pioneering demonstration of the value of philosophical attention to television in the new era of long form, “prestige,” “cinematic television.”

Prof. Robert Pippin, author of Filmed Thought: Ci

inema as Reflective Form

By taking forward the genius of Cavell’s approach this volume charts one of the most exciting and important new directions in the study of TV. In so doing, it also transforms what it means to do philosophy in the present.

Andrew Brandel, Pennsylvania State University

Biographical Note

David LaRocca studied philosophy, film, rhetoric, and religion at Buffalo, Berkeley, Vanderbilt, and Harvard. He is the author or contributing editor of more than a dozen books, including a suite of volumes in film-philosophy.

Sandra Laugier, a former student at the Ecole normale supérieure and at Harvard University, is Professor of Philosophy at Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. She has published extensively on ordinary language philosophy (Wittgenstein, Austin, Cavell), moral and political philosophy, gender studies and the ethics of care, popular film, and TV series, and is the author of over 30 books in total.

PUBLICATION DATE 30 May 2023

PUBLISHER University of Exeter Press

FORMAT | ISBN | PRICE Hbk | 9781804130186 | £125.00 | $176.00 eBook available

SIZE 234 x 156 mm

PAGES 348pp

SERIES

TV-Philosophy

BIC SUBJECTS

APT, APFA, HPQ

BISAC SUBJECTS

PER010090, PER010000, PER004030, PHI005000

RIGHTS World

GOLD OPEN ACCESS

A free to download eBook will be available on publication.