He analyzed The Philadelphia Story and The Lady Eve in a work which coined the term 'comedy of remarriage', Pursuits of Happiness.
This man linked the thought of Poe and Descartes with his notion of 'word-imps' in his lecture "Being Odd, Getting Even", which joins his reading of The Winter's Tale, "Recounting Gains, Showing Losses" in one collection. One of his works features the anecdote of "The Frog and the Craftsman", and in a more recent work he expounded on the notion of the 'passionate utterance.' The author of In Quest of the Ordinary, he concerned himself with Emersonian moral perfectionism in works like Cities of Words. He analyzed The Philadelphia Story and The Lady Eve in a work which coined the term 'comedy of remarriage', Pursuits of Happiness. One work ends with a reading of King Lear titled "The Avoidance of Love" and another is subtitled "Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy." For 10 points, name this American philosopher, the author of Must We Mean What We Say and The Claim of Reason.
This man linked the thought of Poe and Descartes with his notion of 'word-imps' in his lecture "Being Odd, Getting Even", which joins his reading of The Winter's Tale, "Recounting Gains, Showing Losses" in one collection.
Stanley Louis {Cavell}