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Reissued with an essay on Macbeth this is a collection of essays on Shakespeare's tragedies.

In the first essay of this book, Stanley Cavell characterizes philosophy as a "willingness to think not about something other than what ordinary human beings think about, but rather to learn to think undistractedly about things that ordinary human beings cannot help thinking about, or anyway cannot help having occur to them, sometimes in fantasy, sometimes as a flash across a landscape." Fantasies of film and television and literature, flashes...

Stanley Cavell, one of America's most distinguished philosophers, has written an invaluable companion volume to "Walden, " a seminal book in our cultural heritage. This expanded edition includes two essays on Emerson.