This seminar will consist in an in-depth study of a number of significant moments in Stanley Cavell’s philosophical career. We will read and discuss selections from a variety of his works, from some of his early essays on the philosophy of language, modernism, and art (in Must We Mean What We Say?), to some of work on film and film genres (in The World Viewed, Pursuits of Happiness, and Contesting Tears), to some of his work on skepticism (in Claim of Reason and Disowning Knowledge).