Introduction: Part I. Ordinary Language and its Philosophy: 1. Must we mean what we say? and ordinary language philosophy Sandra Laugier; 2. Revolutionary uses of Wittgenstein in must we mean what we say? Juliet Floyd; 3. Actions and their elaboration Jean-Philippe Narboux; 4., Faces of the ordinary Eli Friedlander; Part II. Aesthetics and the Modern: 5. Language-games and 'forms of life': Cavell's reading of Wittgenstein and its relevance to literary studies Greg Chase; 6. Philosophic and aesthetic appeal: Stanley Cavell on the irreducibility of the first person in aesthetics and in philosophy Arata Hamawaki; 7. Reading into it or hearing it out? Cavell on modernism and the art critic's hermeneutical risk Robert Engelman; 8. Must we sing what we mean?: 'Music discomposed' and philosophy composed Vincent Colapietro; Part III. Tragedy and the Self: 9. Philosophy as autobiography: From must we mean what we say? to little did I know Naoko Saito; 10. The finer weapon: Cavell, philosophy and praise Victor J. Krebs; 11. On Cavell's on Kierkegaard's on authority and revelation-with constant reference to Austen Kelly Jolley; 12.Tragic Implication Sarah Beckwith; 13. Gored states and theatrical guises Paul Standis.