Philosophy Thursday: Stanley Cavell

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Click Here to Read:  Must We Mean What We Say? On Stanley Cavell by Charles Petersen on the N+1 website.

Click Here to Read: Psychoanalysis and Cinema:  Moments of Letters from an Unknown Woman from the book entitled  Contesting Tears:  The Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman by Stanley Cavell on the Film and Philosophy website.

Click Here to Read:  Stanley Cavell on Wikipedia.

Mere Anarchy by Harvey Roy Greenfeld

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It’s still far too early in the aftermath of the lethal game which James Holmes played out in an Aurora, Colorado multiplex to get more than a shadow of a read about his motivation, his master narrative. Psychoanalysts possess a native madness to interpret – it’s in our blood. A few details have emerged about Holmes, but hardly enough to piece together a coherent picture of his inner life, or the external circumstances which might have precipitated his murderous scenario. Continue reading Mere Anarchy by Harvey Roy Greenfeld