Gender and Language

Works Cited

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Notes

• 1) For example, gender appears only as an afterthought in Stephen Mulhall's Stanley Cavell: Philosophy's Recounting of the Ordinary. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. Likewise Richard Eldridge's superb 2003 collection of essays on Cavell does not systematically explore the issue of gender (Stanley Cavell. Ed. Richard Elridge. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003). My Beyond the Philosopher's Fear: A Cavellian Reading of Gender, Origin and Religion in Modern Skepticism (Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2007) aims to rectify this situation.
• 2) For the importance of this yearning for the impossible for the continental tradition in general and for Derrida in particular see: Dooley, Mark, and Liam Kavanagh. The Philosophy of Derrida, Continental European Philosophy. Stocksfield: Acumen, 2007; as well as Vries, Hent de. Philosophy and the Turn to Religion. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins UP, 1999.
• 3) Wittgenstein, Ludwig, and G. E. M. Anscombe. Philosophical Investigations. 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1997. §115. In the following PI.
• 4) For a more technical discussion of this point see the second chapter of my Beyond the Philosopher's Fear as well as Pears' formulation that, according to Wittgenstein, meaning resides in linguistic techniques" (26).
• 5) Other titles are: George Cukor's Gaslight, Irving Rapper's Now Voyager, and King Vidor's Stella Dallas.
• 6) The other movies Cavell discusses are: Leo Mc Carey's The Awful Truth, George Cukor's The Philadelphia Story and Adam's Rib, Howard Hawks' Bringing Up Baby, and Preston Sturges' The Lady Eve.
• 7) "The reflexiveness of objects harks back, in my mind, to the earlier claim in The World Viewed that objects on a screen appear as held in the frame of nature, implying the world as a whole. The sexual reflexiveness of human beings would accordingly suggest the individual as expressing humanity as such, what in The Claim of Reason I call the internal relation of each human being with all others" (Pursuits 225).
• 8) For this notion of the sublime see also: Mehigan, Timothy J. The Critical Response to Musil's The Man without Qualities. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2003. 103.
• 9) The similarities between Cavell and, for example, Julia Kristeva are suggestive and deserve fuller exploration. I explore these in more detail in my Beyond the Philosopher's Fear, where I give a fuller and more critical account of Cavell's symbolism of gender.