Cavell's Must We Mean What We Say? at 50

Greg Chase is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross. He is the author of Wittgenstein and Modernist Fiction: The Language of Acknowledgment (2022), and has published articles in Modernism/modernity, African American Review and other journals. Juliet Floyd is Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. She is the author of Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics (2021) and co-editor of Philosophical Explorations of the Legacy of Alan Turing (with A. Bokulich, 2017) and Philosophy of Emerging Media (with J. Katz, 2016). Sandra Laugier is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. The translator of Cavell's work into French, she is also the author of Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy (2013) and co-editor of Cavell's posthumous volume Here and There (2022).

Introduction: Part I. Ordinary Language and its Philosophy: 1. Must we mean what we say? and ordinary language philosophy Sandra Laugier; 2. Revolutionary uses of Wittgenstein in must we mean what we say? Juliet Floyd; 3. Actions and their elaboration Jean-Philippe Narboux; 4., Faces of the ordinary Eli Friedlander; Part II. Aesthetics and the Modern: 5. Language-games and 'forms of life': Cavell's reading of Wittgenstein and its relevance to literary studies Greg Chase; 6. Philosophic and aesthetic appeal: Stanley Cavell on the irreducibility of the first person in aesthetics and in philosophy Arata Hamawaki; 7. Reading into it or hearing it out? Cavell on modernism and the art critic's hermeneutical risk Robert Engelman; 8. Must we sing what we mean?: 'Music discomposed' and philosophy composed Vincent Colapietro; Part III. Tragedy and the Self: 9. Philosophy as autobiography: From must we mean what we say? to little did I know Naoko Saito; 10. The finer weapon: Cavell, philosophy and praise Victor J. Krebs; 11. On Cavell's on Kierkegaard's on authority and revelation-with constant reference to Austen Kelly Jolley; 12.Tragic Implication Sarah Beckwith; 13. Gored states and theatrical guises Paul Standis.