Stanley Cavell is one of very few philosophers who systematically reflect on the impact and influence of autobiographical detail, experience, and preferences on their philosophical work. The aim of this essay is to show how Cavell’s use of autobiographical exploration is rooted in his early aesthetic theory, in particular his view of the similarities between philosophy and aesthetic criticism. Cavell argues that criticism starts by exploiting and incorporating a subjective vantage point, eventually bringing the reader to test the significance of a work on herself. In his ‘Aesthetic Problems of Modern Philosophy’, Cavell states exactly this form of appeal to the ‘We’ of author and reader as the basic move of his own version of ‘ordinary language philosophy’. It is because of the connections Cavell sees between criticism and philosophy that his aesthetic diagnosis harks back on his overall critical style of thinking.

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卡维尔的美学与自传

斯坦利·卡维尔（Stanley Cavell）是极少数哲学家之一，他们系统地反思了自传细节，经验和偏好对其哲学著作的影响和影响。本文的目的是展示卡维尔对自传探索的运用是如何扎根于他的早期美学理论，特别是他对哲学与美学批评之间相似性的看法。卡维尔认为，批评是从利用和纳入主观视角开始的，最终使读者检验作品对自己的意义。卡维尔在他的《现代哲学的美学问题》中，将这种吸引作者和读者的“我们”的形式确切地表述为他自己的“普通语言哲学”版本的基本动作。