Paraphrase me if you dare: Stanley Cavell’s Sadness
Colin Burrow, 9 June 2022
Despite his intellectual origins in ordinary language philosophy there is something profoundly unordinary about Stanley Cavell’s syntax, in its refusal to let words rest, or to arrive where they seem to be going. This style, clotted, retortive, says to its readers: ‘Paraphrase me if you dare, for I have still secrets from you.’