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The Ironist and the Romantic Bloomsbury Studies in American Philosophy Bloomsbury Studies in American Philosophy presents cutting-edge scholarship in both the history of and contemporary movements in American philosophy. The wholly original arguments, perspectives and research findings in titles in this series make it an important and stimulating resource for students and academics from across the field. America’s First Women Philosophers, Dorothy G. Rogers Dewey and the Ancients, edited by Christopher C. Kirby Feminist Epistemology and American Pragmatism, Alexandra L. Shuford John Searle and the Construction of Social Reality, Joshua Rust The Legacy of John Rawls, edited by Thom Brooks and Fabian Freyenhagen Nozick, Autonomy and Compensation, Dale F. Murray Peirce, James, and a Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion, John W. 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Marcum Varieties of Pragmatism, Douglas McDermid Virtue Ethics: Dewey and MacIntyre, Stephen Carden The Ironist and the Romantic Reading Richard Rorty and Stanley Cavell Áine Mahon Bloomsbury Studies in American Philosophy Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square 1385 Broadway London New York WC1B 3DP NY 10018 UK USA www.bloomsbury.com Bloomsbury is a registered trade mark of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published 2014 Paperback edition fi rst published 2015 © Áine Mahon, 2014 Áine Mahon has asserted her right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Author of this work. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. 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Typeset by Deanta Global Publishing Services, Chennai, India Printed and bound in Great Britain Contents Acknowledgements vi List of Abbreviations vii Introduction 1 1 Return of the Invisible Tomato 13 2 What’s the Use of Calling Cavell a Pragmatist? 43 3 The Turn to Literature 71 4 Stylists of the Philosophical 97 5 The Personal and the Political 125 Conclusion 153 Notes 163 Bibliography 179 Index 187 Acknowledgements For the financial support that made this project possible, I would like to thank the Fulbright Commission of Ireland, the Irish Research Council and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh. Parts of Chapter 2 have appeared under my maiden name (Áine Kelly) in Andrew Taylor and Áine Kelly (eds), Stanley Cavell, Literature and Film: The Idea of America. I am grateful to Routledge for permission to reproduce this material. A portion of Chapter 4 was previously published in European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 2: 2 (2010), 211–23. Again, I would like to thank the editors for permission to reproduce. Finally, I would like to thank all those friends and colleagues who read and commented on various stages of this project: Richard Bernstein and Alice Crary (The New School for Social Research), Maeve Cooke (University College Dublin), Richard Eldridge (Swarthmore College), Timothy Gould (Metropolitan State College of Denver), Espen Hammer (Temple University), Paul Jenner (Loughborough University), Richard H. King and Anthony Hutchison (University of Nottingham), Colin Koopman (University of Oregon) and Martin Woessner (City University of New York). Sincere thanks to you all; buíochas ó chroí libh go léir. List of Abbreviations AC Richard Rorty, Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth- Century America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998). CHU Stanley Cavell, Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome: The Constitution of Emersonian Perfectionism (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1990). CIS Richard Rorty, Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1989). CP Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays, 1972–1980 (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1982). CPP Frank Kermode and Joan Richardson (eds), Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry and Prose (New York: Library of America, 1997). CR Stanley Cavell, The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Morality, Skepticism, and Tragedy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979). CW Stanley Cavell, Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005). DK Stanley Cavell, Disowning Knowledge: In Six Plays of Shakespeare (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987). ETE Stanley Cavell, Emerson’s Transcendental Etudes (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003). QO Stanley Cavell, In Quest of the Ordinary: Lines of Skepticism and Romanticism (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1988). LDK Stanley Cavell, Little Did I Know: Excerpts from Memory (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010). LT Richard Rorty (ed.), The Linguistic Turn: Essays in Philosophical Method (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1992). viii List of Abbreviations LWS Holly Stevens (ed.), Letters of Wallace Stevens (California: University of California Press, 1996). MWM Stanley Cavell, Must We Mean What We Say? A Book of Essays (Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1976). PDT Stanley Cavell, Philosophy The Day After Tomorrow (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005). PMN Richard Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009). POP Stanley Cavell, A Pitch of Philosophy: Autobiographical Exercises (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994). PP1 Richard Rorty, Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers, Volume 1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991). PP2 Richard Rorty, Essays on Heidegger and Others: Philosophical Papers, Volume 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991). PP3 Richard Rorty, Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers, Volume 3 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998). PP4 Richard Rorty, Philosophy as Cultural Politics: Philosophical Papers, Volume 4 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007). PSH Richard Rorty, Philosophy and Social Hope (London: Penguin Books, 2009). SW Stanley Cavell, The Senses of Walden (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1992). NYUA Stanley Cavell, This New Yet Unapproachable America: Lectures After Wittgenstein After Emerson (Albuquerque, NM: Living Batch Press, 1989). TS Stanley Cavell, Themes Out of School: Effects and Causes (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1988).
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