Stanley Cavell dead

The US-American philosopher Stanley Cavell died on June 19 of this year.

Stanley Louis Cavell (September 1, 1926 – June 19, 2018) was an American philosopher. He was the Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He worked in the fields of ethics, aesthetics, and ordinary language philosophy. As an interpreter, he produced influential works on Wittgenstein, Austin, Emerson, Thoreau, and Heidegger. His work is characterized by its conversational tone and frequent literary references.

Wikipedia
Photograph from Wikipedia

From the New York Review of Books:

Christopher Benfey, June 20, 2018

From the London Review of Books (Blog):

The Editors, 20 June 2018

Nachtrag:

Das Denken beginnt immer wieder von Neuem – der amerikanische Philosoph Stanley Cavell ist gestorben
Er war Sprachphilosoph, Filmliebhaber und Literaturtheoretiker. Der amerikanische Philosoph widmete sein Leben der Frage, was wir wissen können und was nicht. Und was es bedeutet, wenn wir uns etwas mitteilen. Am Dienstag ist er 91-jährig gestorben.
NZZ, Maria-Sibylla Lotter, 21.6.2018

During my University years in the US I learnt the work of Stanley Cavell due to my interest in aesthetics, film theory and semiotics (which included linguistics and Wittgenstein, Chomsky and George Steiner). With some faculty members I could engage in discussions about Cavell's theories. This experience left a deep impression and a high appreciation for this untypical teacher and theorist.
HLH

Trakl still fascinates, at least in the US

The Mysterious Music of Georg Trakl

Christopher Benfey

Stanley Cavell liked to talk about the two myths of reading subscribed to by Western philosophers. “According to one myth the philosopher must have read virtually everything, at least the whole of Western philosophy, broadly conceived,” he wrote in his memoir, Little Did I Know (2010). The other myth specified that philosophers, pure thinkers that they are, should read virtually nothing. “Heidegger is an obvious exemplar of the former myth,” Cavell observed, “Wittgenstein of the latter.”
And yet, both philosophers, the voracious reader and the seemingly reluctant one, found themselves, at pivotal moments in their careers, turning to the arresting work of the early twentieth-century Austrian poet Georg Trakl (1887–1914). Not surprisingly, Wittgenstein and Heidegger responded to Trakl’s striking and still mysterious poems in sharply divergent—one might almost say opposite—ways. James Reidel’s recently completed three-volume translation of Trakl’s major work, timed to coincide with the centennial of the poet’s suicide, allows readers to speculate on what Heidegger and Wittgenstein (along with many other poetry-lovers) may have found so alluring.

Read more at the NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS

See and listen Video at Youtube: Georg Trakl, Der Herbst des Einsamen, read by Haimo L. Handl

Verstehen

Wenn ein Löwe sprechen könnte, könnten wir ihn nicht verstehen.
Ludwig Wittgenstein