This is the first attempt to describe and assess the full range of Cavell's work.

1. Introduction Richard Eldridge; 2. Philosophy of mind and epistemology Stephen Mulhall; 3. Theory of action Timothy Gould; 4. Ethics Stanley Bates; 5. Aesthetics, criticism and modernism J. M. Berstein; 6. German philosophy and romanticism William Desmond; 7. American philosophy, metaphilosophy and the idea of America James Conant; 8. Shakespeare, feminism and psychoanalysis Karen Hanson; 9. Movies, opera and voice William Rothman; 10. Cavell on Shakespeare Anthony Cascardi.