What is Stanley Cavell?
{{Infobox philosopher | image = Stanley Cavell, Paris 2015.jpg | caption = Stanley Cavell in Paris, 2015 | name = Stanley Cavell | birth_name = Stanley Louis<!--the source does not mention explicitly 'Louis'--> Goldstein<ref>David LaRocca, ''Emerson's English Traits and the Natural History of Metaphor'', Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013, p. 318.</ref><br>(legally changed name to Stanley Louis Cavell in 1942) | birth_date = {{Birth date|1926|9|1}} | birth_place = [[Atlanta]], Georgia, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|2018|6|19|1926|9|1}} | death_place = [[Boston]], Massachussets, U.S. | education = [[University of California, Berkeley]] (B.A.)<br>[[UCLA]] (no degree)<br>[[Harvard University]] (Ph.D.) | school_tradition = [[Postanalytic philosophy]]<ref>[[Michael Adrian Peters]], ''Education, Philosophy and Politics: The Selected Works of Michael A. Peters'', Routledge, 2012, p. 210.</ref> | main_interests = [[Skepticism]], [[tragedy]], [[aesthetics]], [[ethics]], [[ordinary language philosophy]], [[American transcendentalism]], [[film theory]], [[William Shakespeare]], [[opera]], [[religion]] | influences = [[Søren Kierkegaard|Kierkegaard]], [[Ralph Waldo Emerson|Emerson]], [[Henry David Thoreau|Thoreau]], [[Ludwig Wittgenstein|Wittgenstein]], [[J. L. Austin|Austin]], [[Martin Heidegger|Heidegger]], [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzsche]], [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]], [[Roger Sessions]] | influenced = [[Michael Fried]], [[Paul Guyer]], [[Sandra Laugier]], [[Stephen Mulhall]], [[Hilary Putnam]], [[Bernard Williams]], [[Robert H. Gardner|Robert Gardner]], [[David Macarthur]] | notable_ideas = [[Philosophy of language film analysis]] }} '''Stanley Louis<!--see VIAF data--> Cavell''' ({{IPAc-en|k|ə|ˈ|v|ɛ|l}}; September 1, 1926 – June 19, 2018) was an [[Americans|American]] [[philosopher]]. He was the [[Cabot family|Walter M. Cabot]] Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value, Emeritus, at [[Harvard University]]. He worked in the field