Stanley Cavell and the Education of GrownupsWhat could it mean to speak of philosophy as the education of grownups? This book takes Stanley Cavells much quoted, yet enigmatic phrase as the provocation for a series of explorations into themes of education that run throughout his work through his response to Wittgenstein, Austin and ordinary language philosophy, through his readings of Thoreau and of the moral perfectionism he identifies with Emerson, through his discussions of literature and