The Palgrave Companion to Stanley Cavell’s Aesthetic Thought is a collection dedicated to the intersections between Stanley Cavell’s aesthetic thought and an array of major philosophical figures: Kant, Nietzsche, Schelling, Wittgenstein, Austin, Heidegger, Benjamin, Arendt, Derrida, Diamond, Bugbee, and others.  It offers a comprehensive account of Cavell’s aesthetic legacy by exploring its indebtedness and relevance to these philosophical interlocutors. The volume’s premise is that Cavell’s conversational mode of philosophizing is intimately connected to his original understanding of art and film and to their centrality in his work. The featured essays elucidate different aspects of this connection, as each chapter reconstructs Cavell’s dialogue with another thinker on a subject chosen from the vast gamut of Cavell’s work: aesthetic experience, philosophical style, perfectionism, reading, literary form,  modernism, film genres, and more. The Palgrave Companion to Stanley Cavell’s Aesthetic Thought offers cutting-edge perspectives on traditional Cavellian themes while also opening unexpected avenues of “doing things with Cavell.” It addresses scholars and students interested in Cavell, aesthetics and the arts, dialogical thinking, and their significance for modern philosophy at large.

Pioter Shmugliakov is a teaching fellow at the Multidisciplinary Department of Tel-Hai Academic College and the Department of Photography at the University of Haifa.

Alma Itzhaky is an independent scholar and visual artist.

Johnathan Soen is a research fellow at the Center of Post-Kantian Philosophy at the University of Potsdam and at the Institute of Philosophy of Tel Aviv University.